Al Crawford holds the rare distinction of being the first person to quote 17th century Pom poet John Milton in the pages of B&T.

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The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) welcomed a new Ice Age exhibit. “Giants of the Ice Age” features a wooly ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

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The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The cave’s mineral conditions fostered an exceptional fossilization process, allowing the remains to be preserved in a remarkable state, uncommon in this type of environment. (Facebook) The Huasteca ...

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A team of archaeologists working in South Africa has discovered a hoard of 60,000-year-old arrowheads affixed with a surprising, and extra-fatal, security feature. Archaeologists found 60,000-year-old ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...