Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic. Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

Coal was once prehistoric forests of seed ferns and other plants ... Your journey will begin in an immersive timeline canyon of ancient rocks that leads you through geological time, from the oldest ...

The 5,000-year-old burial site suggests that China’s neolithic kingdoms were more sophisticated than previously thought.

This collection of viewable prehistoric artifact 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts, other replicas, and some original objects which are now on ...

Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you. Ever wondered what prehistoric Britain was like? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning.The ancestors of humans first appeared in Britain around 900,000 years ago.

Notice how long the prehistorical era was compared to other periods. JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon ...

Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small dinosaur garden at home using plants that many dinosaurs would recognise. We know what plants were around at the time of ...

This isn’t just some esoteric academic debate. Some paleontologists argue that our estimates of prehistoric biodiversity are so far off base that they risk skewing our understanding of how life ...

A team of archaeologists recently explored prehistoric combat to shed light on how ancient warriors of the European Bronze ...

Modern archeological methods—including electrical soil probes and carbon 14 dating—are stripping bit by bit the ancient mystery from Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument on Britain’s ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious prehistoric grave site in Granada, Spain, with more women than men buried, raising questions about ...

In a world adorned with innumerable Halloween costumes, one stands tall, dominating the realm of the prehistoric: the T-Rex costume. This majestic attire transforms you into the apex predator of the ...