The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southeastern France is a jewel of prehistoric art. When it was discovered in December 1994, it amazed the world with its vivid cave paintings, believed to be over ...

Imagine strolling along the same path where our ancestors once walked, then accidentally discovering human footprints that had been left behind roughly 115,000 years ago. This is precisely what ...

A scene from Upper Paleolithic Chauvet cave, France. (photo credit: Prof. Jean Clottes.) The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave ...

Paleontologists say the some 200 footprints discovered along five different trails offer new insights into certain dinosaurs' size and speed. "All of the dinosaurs, based on our estimates of speed, ...

The footprints date back to about 166 million years ago and appear to belong to two distinct types of dinosaurs Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

Freedom of Information request reveals that organisations continue to allow staff to travel by air following ban announcements The BBC and NHS England are spending thousands of pounds of taxpayer ...

Over 200 dinosaur tracks found in Oxfordshire Tracks date back 166 million years, offering new insights Scientists uncover footprints from Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus ...

Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles. They live in complete darkness, feast on bats and swim in liquid guano (aka bat poop.) ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest ever human footprints, dating back a whopping 115,000 years, and worryingly, they shouldn’t even be there. Scientists uncovered the footprints in ...

A worker digging up clay in an English limestone quarry discovered a “dinosaur highway” made up of 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The Oxfordshire footprints include a mix of footprints from ...

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years ...