Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.

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Possible Arctic graveyard may be northernmost Stone Age cemetery — but there are no human remains to prove it

Archaeologists think they may have found one of the largest prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemeteries in northern Europe just a hair south of the Arctic Circle. But the one important thing missing from the 6,500-year-old site in Finland is any evidence of human skeletons.

Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools

A research group… has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic…The researchers have published the results in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Dolphins Reveal a Mysterious Hidden Sense: They Can Detect Electric Fields

One of the most well-studied marine mammals in the world has been secretly harboring a superpower sixth sense. The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Planets of distant solar system orbit star in coordinated dance, say scientists

Six planets that orbit their star in a coordinated dance have been discovered by scientists, who say the finding could help shed light on why planets in our own solar system move to their own beat.

Mysterious bird-like tracks in Africa: The oldest birds?

Fossil tracks found in southern Africa, push the potential evolution of the first birds back to 210 million years ago – during the Triassic (252–201 million years ago), the first epoch of the “Age of Dinosaurs.”