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Natural History
Woolly Mammoths May Have Shared the Landscape With First Humans in New England
Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a Dartmouth study published in Boreas.
Natural History
How Did Dogs Get to the Americas?
The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them.
Natural History
First DNA Extracted from Modern, Ancient and Fossil Tropical Shells
In Wonderland, Alice drank a potion to shrink herself. In nature, some animal species shrink to escape the attention of human hunters, a process that takes from decades to millennia.
Natural History
Animal Evolution: Glimpses of Ancient Environments
Although amber looks like a somewhat unusual inorganic mineral, it is actually derived from an organic source - tree resins.
Natural History
Million-year-old DNA Reveals How Mammoths Evolved
An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old.
Natural History
Climate Change Likely Drove the Extinction of North America’s Largest Animals
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna.
Natural History
Scientists Discover Stationary Life Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
Far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there's more life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Natural History
Horse Remains Reveal New Insights Into How Native Peoples Raised Horses
A new analysis of a horse previously believed to be from the Ice Age shows that the animal actually died just a few hundred years ago--and was raised, ridden and cared for by Native peoples.
Natural History
Women Influenced Coevolution of Dogs and Humans
In a cross-cultural analysis, Washington State University researchers found several factors may have played a role in building the mutually beneficial relationship between humans and dogs, including temperature, hunting and surprisingly - gender.
Natural History
Ancient DNA Reveals Secrets of Dire Wolves
Extinct dire wolves split off from other wolves nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of today's wolves.
Natural History
Sharing Leftover Meat May Have Contributed to Early Dog Domestication
Humans feeding leftover lean meat to wolves during harsh winters may have had a role in the early domestication of dogs, towards the end of the last ice age (14,000 to 29,000 years ago).
Natural History
Research Explains Why Crocodiles Changed so Little Since Age of Dinosaurs
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a 'stop-start' pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have changed so little since the age of the dinosaurs.
