The skeleton sat inside the Suining Formation rock bed. This layer dates to 147 million years ago. The sediments indicate a ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

As the last continents to be settled by humans, the question of how and when people first came to the Americas has long intrigued scientists. A new genetics study published Tuesday in Cell Reports ...

Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Experts believe the size of the tomb and wealth of the artifacts show the owner was a ...

This undated shows surroundings of the Luojiahe cultural relic site in Chunhua County, Xianyang City, northwest China's ...

Few moments in paleontology are as exciting as the discovery of dinosaur eggs. These fragile and ancient specimens offer a ...

SHANGHAI, July 20 (Reuters Life!) - From small teeth to towering life-size reconstructions, an exhibition of rare dinosaur fossils in China is breathing new life into the beasts that roamed the earth ...