Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce.

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia’s unique wildlife – from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct – are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Once upon a time, people near the valley of Nemea in southern Greece lived in mortal fear of a lion lurking in the surrounding hills and preying on the populace. Only mighty Hercules, challenged by ...