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.

What began as a simple search for arrowheads on an Iowa farm turned into an extraordinary encounter with the past. A teenager ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the purpose of a 1,500-year-old bucket at Sutton Hoo, revealing that it was used as a cremation vessel for an important Anglo-Saxon figure.

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, ...

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.

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow ...

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from ...