Nothing suggests primitive like the archetypical caveman, but our less-evolved predecessors knew a thing or two about sustainable living. In Southern Spain, caves are still used as living spaces, ...

The first known Neanderthal cave art, a giant, elaborate hashtag, has been discovered in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar, Reuters reports. Researchers have made several important discoveries about the ...

In the dark abyss of the world's deepest known cave lurks a newfound species of primitive eyeless insect, one that researchers are calling the deepest land animal ever found. The creature, now known ...

Cave paintings date back at least 44,000 years and are among the earliest known forms of human culture and storytelling. But how did our primitive ancestors create detailed, often colorful scenes on ...

Primitive people used their hands, charcoal and ochre stones to depict animals in southern France Paris: The Chauvet cave in southern France will soon be welcoming visitors eager to examine drawings ...

The life inside deep caves, hidden for millions of years In some of the planet’s biggest caves, primitive life has been existing for millions of years in isolation. Could it hold answers to evolution ...

Palaeoanthropology, the study of the evolution of humanity, arose in the nineteenth century. Excavations in Europe uncovered a series of archaeological sediments which provided proof that the ...

The Trogloraptor is at once a new species, genus and family of spider. Photo by California Academy of Sciences. The Trogloraptor, a cave-dwelling spider with peculiar, talon-like claws, hangs upside ...