A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

Artifacts from a cave in the US may rewrite the history of the continent, showing ancient humans had surprising skills ...

The prehistoric remains were found by volunteer cavers at Stump Cross Caverns near Pateley Bridge.

A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating ...

Ancient evidence of stitched leather, over 12,000 years old, has been discovered in an Oregon cave, revealing how they survived.

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of ...

Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and counting, into the Earth. What began as a limestone labyrinth has turned out to ...

Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a ...

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 ...

The discovery of sewn hide in Oregon caves offers the oldest known evidence of early clothing, shedding light on how ancient ...

Japanese scientists confirm a new marine coral species, Corallizoanthus aureus, that glows in the dark and inhabits deep caves in the ocean.

Mammoth” is the museum’s largest ever single-artist commission and opens Friday less than a mile from the White House.