The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of ...

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130 ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

"There's no question they were smart, they were intelligent, they were advanced," study author Prof Bo Li told IFLScience.

This year "Jaws" celebrates its 50th anniversary. Its success reflects the enduring importance of our most ancient fear: ...

An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up 125,000 years ago.

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Rocks dating back to the Earth’s Hadean Eon, first discovered in 2008, have now had their age confirmed at at least 4.16 billion years, offering scientists a rare window into the planet’s earliest ...

The first superhero story ever depicted in comics During their beginnings, the comics weren’t published in comic books as they are today. In the early 20th century, the forerunner of today’s comics ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with the appearance of the earliest known hominids in the fossil record. A study ...