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The Hill of Uisneach

Westmeath, Ireland

The Hill of Uisneach

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

A Northern Common Cuscus in Indonesia's Gunung Mutis Nature Reserve.

The Cute Critter Rewriting Our Understanding of Prehistory

Before cows and chickens, cuscuses may have been the original livestock.

Manvir Singh October 23, 2020

<em>E. kingii</em> never got huge, but it kept on growing.

The Cambrian Creatures That Grew Up Over the Course of 28 Bodies

Trilobites slipped out of one exoskeleton and built another, over and over and over again.

Jessica Leigh Hester July 30, 2020

India's Ancient Sites Are Under Threat From Development

India is key to the story of early human migration. But its archaeological sites are rapidly disappearing.

Atlas Obscura July 20, 2020

Papasidero, Italy

Romito Cave

A mountain cave is the site of archaeological findings and Paleolithic rock art.

Replica of the 12,000-year-old Chimalhuacán Man and the mammoth mural.

Acolman, Mexico

Museum of Tepexpan

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.

Anaheim, California

Petrified Tree

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

Cave of Maltravieso

Cáceres, Spain

Cave of Maltravieso

A neighborhood park in the city of Cáceres hides what some believe are revolutionary examples of Neanderthal cave art.

Dolmen of Guadalperal.

Peraleda de la Mata, Spain

Dolmen of Guadalperal

This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.

Border Cave, between South Africa and Swaziland.

Found: The Charred Remains of a 170,000-Year-Old Meal in a South African Cave

It doesn't look like much, but it's a key step in the development of human diets.

Isaac Schultz January 7, 2020

A sea lily, spotted off the Northwest Guam Seamount.

A Sea Lily Fossil in Utah Just Solved an Evolutionary Mystery

“This tears off one branch in the tree of life and rearranges it another way.”

Sabrina Imbler December 16, 2019

Smaller giraffe and other animal petroglyphs at Dabous.

Dabous Giraffes

These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world.

Modern footprints speckle the Alkali Flat Trail at White Sands—and around the area, oodles of prehistoric footprints are buried beneath the sand.

How Radar Detected Prehistoric Footprints Beneath White Sands National Monument

Researchers have found Pleistocene-era proof of a human, mammoth, and ground sloth trundling along.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 27, 2019

View of the whole set

Altamira Cave Replica

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.

Teams at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt began dismantling the mastodon in October 2019.

natural history museums

The Founding Fathers' Favorite Mastodon Is Coming Home for a Visit

Here's how you ship the skeleton of long-dead megafauna across the Atlantic.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 6, 2019

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Turtle Mound

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

SUE could have used a breath mint.

How Scientists Are Recreating Dinosaur Breath

At the Field Museum, visitors can now get a whiff of the Cretaceous.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 10, 2019

Royal, Nebraska

Ashfall Fossil Beds

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.