Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering ...

A new study has uncovered chilling evidence that nearly 18,000 years ago, European warriors ate the brains of their enemies.

These particular corpses had been “intensively manipulated” to extract all tissues and make use of “their caloric ...

A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over resources. And these early humans fought a fight so fierce, they even ate ...

Early Europeans known as the Magdalenians celebrated by removing the ears of their enemies, scooping out their brains, and ...

A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of ...

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...