After more than two decades of analysis, researchers from Montana State University have finally revealed how three microbes ...

A modern-day caveman in Argentina has spent around half of his 79 years living in a mountain hovel. How true to the caveman legacy is Pedro Luca’s life? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.

A 66-million-year-old piece of fossilised vomit has been discovered in Denmark, shedding light on prehistoric marine life.

Lucy was discovered in 1974 by anthropologist Professor Donald Johanson and his student Tom Gray in northern Ethiopia. They named the skeleton after 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', the Beatles ...

What was prehistoric Britain like? From the Stone Age to the Iron Age - learn about life in prehistoric Britain. What was life like in the Middle Stone Age? Also known as the Mesolithic Stone Age ...

“All of those other ways of life became extinct. And so that gives us a lot to think about, and it draws attention to the fragility of life, even in our own journey through time.” ...

The life of prehistoric Homo sapiens diverged from ours in many ways, but when it comes to sleep, we followed some similar patterns — quite literally. Cavemen tended to go to bed with the moon ...

American artist Charles R. Knight produced some of the most iconic paintings of prehistoric life to date. Several major natural history museums in the US have featured Knight’s murals: detailed, ...