Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England’s most historic sites – and it wasn’t pleasant.

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

A decades-old cold case is solved after bones discovered on the beaches of the Jersey Shore were found to have belonged to a boat captain who died at sea in 1844.

Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

Since most contaminants (e.g., metal, glass, bone) are denser than food, they absorb more energy and therefore they show up ...

ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) analysis of 173 bone specimens (83 tools and 90 fragments) proved that 131 belonged to whales, including sperm whales, gray whales, blue whales, fin whales, ...

Thanks to an international team of scientists, we now know that coastal hunter-gatherer groups have been using whale bones ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.