Ice Age art hidden by graffitti
Tübingen archaeologists discover over 12,000-year-old images of animals in eastern France.
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Ancient flower fossil points to Core Eudicot Boom 99 million years ago
About 140 years ago, Charles Darwin seemed to be bothered by evidence suggesting the sudden occurrence of numerous angiosperms in the mid-Cretaceous.
Ancient Egyptians discovered Algol’s variability 3,000 years before western astronomers
Astronomers and Egyptologists demonstrate how ancient Egyptian calendars were used to describe the behaviour of astronomical observations, in particular, the star system Algol.
Study casts new light on fishing throughout history
A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed new insights into ancient fishing throughout history, including what type of fish people were
The whole tooth: New method to find biological sex from a single tooth
A team led by UC Davis researchers have come up with a new way to estimate the biological sex of human skeletal remains based on
Ancient human population histories revealed in Central and South America
The first high quality ancient DNA data from Central and South America--49 individuals some as old as 11,000 years--has revealed a major and previously unknown
Experts find that stone tools connected communities
The tools - mainly blades and backed knives from the Howiesons Poort - were found in various layers in the Klipdrift Shelter, in the southern
The Dark Ages were relatively healthy
The early medieval period, from the 5th to the 10th centuries, is often called the Dark Ages. But in the age of legendary heroes such as Siegfried,
Tiny footprints, big discovery: Reptile tracks oldest ever found in grand canyon
A geology professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has discovered that a set of 28 footprints left behind by a reptile-like creature 310
‘Potato gene’ reveals how ancient Andeans adapted to starchy diet
Potatoes, native to South America, became an agricultural crop thousands of years ago in the Andean highlands of Peru. And just as the ancient Andean
DNA of world’s oldest natural mummy unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas
A legal battle over a 10,600 year old ancient skeleton - called the 'Spirit Cave Mummy' - has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it
Orkney’s Oldest Wooden Bowl Unveiled
A remarkable, perfectly preserved, wooden bowl unearthed from a two-thousand-year-old well has been revealed during conservation work being undertaken on the artefact this week.
Most Complete Study on Europe’s Greatest Hadrosaur Site Published
The Basturs Poble site is what is known in English as a bone bed, a geological stratum containing a great amount of fossils. The stratum dates
The teeth of Changchunsaurus: Rare insight into ornithopod dinosaur tooth evolution
The teeth of Changchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of China, represent an important and poorly-known stage in the evolution of ornithopod dentition,
One million years of precipitation history of the monsoon reconstructed
Months of heavy rainfall followed by half a year of drought - the South Asian Monsoon with its seasonally changing rainfall and wind directions has
Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth’s water
Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, according to new research.
Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure
For more than 6,000 years, seagrass meadows in Australia’s coastal waters have been acting as security vaults for priceless cultural heritage.
Ancient quarry ramp system may have helped workers build Egypt’s Great Pyramids
University of Liverpool academics have discovered what may be the remains of a 4,500 year old ramp system to transport the huge alabaster blocks used
Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods
Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods than their uninjured counterparts, who may have provided injured cats with soft scraps.
Fern plant infusion keeps the doctor away in Medieval Europe
The remains of a medieval skeleton has shown the first physical evidence that a fern plant could have been used for medicinal purposes in cases
Oldest evidence of dairying on the East Asian Steppe
Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life on
German Fleet Salvage Sites Project Nears Completion in Scapa Flow, Orkney
The wrecks of the First World War German High Seas Fleet that lie on the seabed in Scapa Flow, Orkney are famous throughout the world