Fossils don't always come in large, dinosaur-sized packages. Microfossils refer to a type of fossil that is so small, it can only be perceived with a microscope. These microfossils can help us ...

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in the ...

Left cerebral hemisphere of an adult male buried at the site of the former Blackberry Hill Hospital (Bristol, UK). The surface of the brain’s visible convolutions is stained red with iron oxides.