In 1958, an amateur archaeologist unearthed an array of fiber, wood, hide, and more from Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon. The ...

Postojna Cave is famous for its five-metre-tall bright-white stalagmite called Brilliant. Postojna Cave, and the surrounding cave system, is also famous for the unusual number of species adapted to ...

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist Nick Cave collected thousands of objects to mount an exhibition on memory and history. His giant mammoth sculptures are potent, timely symbols of ...

Learn more about this popular attraction just outside San Antonio and its historic rise to prominence in the area.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

The oldest physical remains of sewn clothing have been discovered in an Oregon cave, representing a vital turning point in the development of human culture.

This undated image provided by Maxime Aubert shows handprints with sharpened fingertips in the Maros region of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Ahdi Agus Oktaviana/Maxime Aubert via AP) This undated image ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

But some things never change – and now, in a couple of caves in the high desert of Oregon, we’ve found the earliest evidence of the ancient human urge to look as fly as possible. “Structurally and ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...