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Fire is useful for shaping hardwood.
archaeology

Found: Fire-Shaped Wooden Tools Used by Neanderthals

It's rare that wood survives for 170,000 years.
Vittoria Traverso February 7, 2018
The two sides of a 90-million-year-old fossilized fish found in the flagstones at a Colombian monastery.
fossils

Found: A Fossilized Fish in a Monastery Flagstone

A 10-year-old boy on a tour spotted the fossil and reported it to a local museum.
Vittoria Traverso February 1, 2018
The prehistoric artistic implement.
art

Found: A Mesolithic Crayon

Ochre red was a popular color choice in prehistoric England.
Vittoria Traverso January 30, 2018
Two Ankylosaurus come to blows.
dinosaurs

Why More Animals Don't Use Their Tails as Weapons

By wielding their built-in defenses, some prehistoric creatures thwacked enemies hard enough to crack bone.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 18, 2018
A giant ground sloth skeleton.
sloths

Like Avocados? Thank This Giant Extinct Sloth

They ate avocados, pit and all.
Anne Ewbank January 9, 2018
Chunks of the Gibeon Meteorite.
Windhoek, Namibia

The Gibeon Meteorites

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.
Skeleton of a plesiosaur on display at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
antarctic

Found: A Plesiosaur, Antarctica's Oldest Animal Fossil

The fossil record of the southern continent has much to offer.
Vittoria Traverso December 22, 2017
During the first dig, scientists revealed the mammoth's skull and scythe-shaped tusks.
prehistoric

What Do You Do When You Find a Mammoth on Your Farm?

A behind-the-scenes look at harvest time, soil drainage, and Pleistocene megafauna.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 20, 2017
Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs
Sousa, Brazil

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.
The amber-trapped prehistoric parasites with an extant tick measuring 0.2 inches.
dinosaurs

Found: 99-Million-Year-Old Ticks Trapped in Amber

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.
Vittoria Traverso December 13, 2017
The view from Pahiyangala cave.
Gavaragiriya, Sri Lanka

Fa-Hien Lena (Pahiyangala Cave)

The remains of a 37,000-year-old prehistoric society were discovered in this mammoth cave, one of the largest in Asia.
The circular structure of houses.
Alaior, Spain

Torre d'en Galmes

This remarkable prehistoric town is full of watchtowers and houses that have withstood thousands of years.
Rock art at Tassili n'Ajjer.
Algeria

Tassili n'Ajjer

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.
An artist's rendering of <em>Siamogale melilutra</em>, a giant prehistoric otter with a surprisingly powerful bite.
science

Meet the Rottweiler-Sized Prehistoric Otter With Teeth That Could Crunch Bone

Can an apex predator be cuddly?
Natasha Frost November 9, 2017
Sajama Lines
Sajama, Bolivia

Sajama Lines

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.
Penzance, England

The Merry Maidens

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.
Onsted, Michigan

Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Iberian Gallery.
Alicante, Spain

Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ)

Fascinating exhibits of prehistoric and ancient artifacts displayed with a uniquely modern touch.