This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many businesses since it was built in 1892. Its creaky wooden floor is now covered with ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years.

Discovered 25 years ago in Dordogne, southwestern France, the Cussac cave is an immaculately preserved jewel of prehistory – and so strictly protected by ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery at Swartkrans Cave has revealed that an early human ancestor walked upright, providing new insights into its size and vulnerability to predators. A team of ...

Some camps prepare kids for the school year ahead, while others focus on topics such as robotics, video game design and ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 million years ago.

This week, we reported on the difficulty humans experience trying to read their dogs' emotions. Researchers reported that ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors about 1.5 million years ago. While older bone tools have been discovered, similar examples of bone tool kits occur ...