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Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago, researchers report May 27 in Nature Communications.

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines. Reading time 2 minutes Perhaps the greatest challenge to studying ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already using these massive sea creatures for survival. A new study has shown that as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ...

A triangular artifact crafted from elephant bone was used by archaic human relatives to sharpen hand axes around 480,000 years ago in what is now the U.K., a new analysis reveals. The item — which ...

20,000 years ago, humans transformed stranded whale remains into weapons and tools. This discovery sheds new light on the survival strategies of coastal populations during the Paleolithic era. An ...