- Crystal is 'oldest scrap of Earth crust'—"A tiny 4.4-billion-year-old crystal has been confirmed as the oldest fragment of Earth's crust."
- Boffins identify ancient Earth asteroid strike that dwarfed dinosaur killer—"Massive space rock impact may have set the continents sliding."
- Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean
- Mysteriously Intact T. Rex Tissue Finally Explained
- New find hits Cambrian fossil jackpot—again.—"Near site of famous Burgess Shale fossils, more turn up."
- Ice Age fossils discovered in L.A. subway construction
- Feathered dinosaur death site is an "animal Pompeii"—"Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a catastrophic event."
- Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Dubbed 'Chicken From Hell'
- The Hidden Dinosaur of Ta Prohm Temple
- Giant virus resurrected from 30,000-year-old ice—"Largest virus yet discovered hints at viral diversity trapped in permafrost."
- 700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded
- 7,000-year-old male, blue eyes, dark skin, likes hunting
- Our Neanderthal heritage—"The scientist who sequenced the Neanderthal genome describes his quest to find what makes us human." Salon
- DNA 'switches' separate Neanderthals from modern humans: study
- Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk
- From study of 12,600-year-old DNA from Montana, clues to early colonization of the Americas
- Ancient Qiang people had vertically grown teeth and longer skeleton
- A 4000-year-old tablet from ancient Mesopotamia contains the specifications for an ark pre-dating the story of Noah
- 'Priceless' bronze statue of Greek god Apollo found in Gaza Strip
- Pharaonic seal found in ancient coffin in Israel
- 4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Uncovered in Egypt—"The pyramid, which predates the Great Pyramid of Giza, is one of seven for which its function remains a mystery."
- Tomb of ancient Egypt's beer maker to gods of the dead discovered
- Student deciphers 1,800-year-old letter from Egyptian soldier
- Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
- 15 Chinese Artifacts That Will Change How You Look at China
- Oldest signs of Japanese using tools uncovered in Okinawa—"Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around 20,000 years old that could help clear up mysteries surrounding the ancestors of modern Japanese people...."
- Philippines' Oldest Artworks in Danger of Disappearing
- Ancient Gladiator School Discovered in Austria
- Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought—"As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC."
- Archaeologists find 2,600-year-old Celtic Princess buried in Germany
- Swedish divers unearth a 'Stone Age Atlantis': 11,000-year-old ancient settlement discovered under the Baltic Sea
- British experts say they have found London's lost Black Death graves
- 4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts
- Storms uncover 7,500-year-old 'drowned forest' on Ireland's west coast
- 10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
