Archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a 5,000-year-old tomb on one of the Scottish Orkney Islands, National Museums Scotland said in a statement Tuesday. The "incredibly rare" tomb, which is from the ...

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Researchers have uncovered the upper body bones of an adult Neanderthal at a famous "flower burial" site in Iraqi Kurdistan in what they describe as an "incredibly exciting" discovery. According to a ...

A complete and articulated skeleton discovered in the Yixian Formation and now hosted at the Liaoning Paleontological Museum in Shenyang, China, belongs to a new dinosaur species named Changmiania ...

The remains of a middle-aged person unearthed in a cave in northern Iraq comprise the first perfectly arranged set of Neanderthal bones discovered in more than 20 years, archaeologists say. Deep ...

The oldest well-preserved skeleton of a primate, a 55-million-year-old specimen found in China, has been discovered, researchers report. The primate appears to be the most primitive known relative of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a 5,000-year-old tomb on one of the Scottish Orkney Islands, National Museums Scotland said ...