Giant anaconda bones discovered in Venezuela date back 12.4 million years, offering rare insight into the evolution of these massive snakes.

A new study has revealed South America’s wetlands have been home to 5.2m-long anacondas for more than 12 million ...

An ancient fragment of bone discovered in the Crimean cave of Starosele is changing what we think about how and where Neanderthals migrated. The fragment, now known as Star 1, turned out to be ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, revealing that modern shark lineages grew to immense sizes far earlier than ...

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes ...

Stonehenge has long fueled fringe claims about giants, giant skeletons, and even Tower of Babel origins. Modern believers argue that erosion hid a massive wooden superstructure, that buried stones are ...