One of the earliest manufacturing sites on the planet is a "tar factory" built by Neanderthals in a cave in […] ...

These ancient predators went extinct, but until science uncovered the reasons behind their disappearance, we didn't know exactly why.

A complete mastodon jaw and additional bone fragments were unearthed from the backyard of a home in Scotchtown, N.Y., ...

Sharp discovered the dire wolf fossil as well as others displayed at Monday’s press conference at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, which is built on the site where hundreds of prehistoric animals are ...

Archaeologists found a specialized hearth or “burning structure,” which they believe was used to create a prehistoric superglue: birch tar ... of cooking fire pits. Moreover, the hearth ...