For years, scientists have attempted to explain the nature and purpose of the huge stone jars littering the landscape.
The remarkable discovery has shown that human evolution was a lot more complex than previously believed.
The impressive discovery is being hailed as the largest of its kind ever found in the country.
The discovery points to the building blocks of life being preserved on the Red Planet for billions of years.
The discovery of infant Neanderthal bones has revealed that our prehistoric counterparts had a very different growth rate.
The remarkable find shows that the distant ancestors of mammals laid eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
Around 65,000 years ago, something happened that might have ultimately doomed the Neanderthals to extinction.
Divers accompanied by a TV crew had been scouring parts of the infamous region for a World War II plane wreckage.
The object, which made headline news last year, appears to contain something that scientists were not expecting.
A disturbing find on a beach in Russia has raised the possibility that orcas may be resorting to cannibalism.
The discovery of a distant solar system with its planets in a seemingly impossible order has been revealed this week.
The discovery is so unexpected that it has been likened to 'suddenly finding a new [human] language in the middle of Europe'.
A groundbreaking archaeological discovery indicates that an advanced culture existed in the US at the time of the ancient Egyptians.
Archaeologists have resumed excavations at the Ness of Brodgar site on the remote north-eastern Scottish island.
The discovery centers on a particular section of the Kuiper Belt that appears to be denser than the areas around it.
Scientists have discovered evidence of methane gas on Makemake - a tiny world situated beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Concerns have been raised following the discovery at the former nuclear weapons facility near Aiken.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have revealed that spiders didn't originate where you might expect.
Evidence of human cannibalism has been found in fossilized bones dating back 850,000 years.
The discovery points to the possibility that the ingredients for life are widespread throughout the cosmos.