At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast ...

A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico's Caribbean coast, an area that flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a ...

Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...