The answer has broad implications for paleontology research—and maybe for museum collections, too.

Head wounds in the fossilized skull of a Paleolithic man suggest foul play.

A study fails to detect ancient proteins among the microbes, adding to the debate about whether peptides can survive tens of millions of years underground.

From an excavation of a site called Çatalhöyük, in modern-day Turkey, scientists recover preserved whipworm eggs—a sign of settling down and living in close quarters.

A brazier and charred stones, thought to be part of burial ceremonies, preserve signs that people used the drug thousands of years ago.

Sequences from dozens of ancient remains from Siberia reveal the closest ancient relative of Native Americans found outside of North America.

Archeologists study the fingerprints left on 1,000-year-old pottery to understand the artists’ contributions.

A fossil of a school of fish from the Eocene appears to represent coordinated collective movement.

Paleontologists find microscopic fungi in Arctic Canada that is reported to be about twice as old as the previously oldest known fossils of fungi.