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The oldest stone tools discovered pre-date the earliest humans

According to research published in the journal Nature in 2015, the oldest stone tools discovered were found at a 3.3-million-year-old site in Kenya's West Turkana. Because these stone tools predate the Oldowan toolbox by 700,000 years, the authors called the discovery “a new beginning in the known archaeological record.” Archaeological excavations at the site, known […]

Arizona Man Finds Hundreds Of Tracks On Property That Predate The Dinosaurs

A man from eastern Arizona uncovered hundreds of fossilized footsteps on his property that are believed to date back more than 240 million years. James Lang of Snowflake, Arizona, spent more than five years uncovering slabs of rock across his property containing the preserved footprints of the chirotherium, an archosaur (giant lizard) that predates the […]