For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in...
BY analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities of Huddersfield, Rome and Modena &...
Primitive air-breathing fish, whose direct ancestors first appeared around 400 million years ago, show mechanisms controlling the heart which were previously considered...
A fossilized trackway on public lands in Lake County, Oregon, may reveal clues about the ancient family dynamics of Columbian mammoths.
It turns out that nobody knows when rabbits were domesticated. Despite a well-cited story of the domestic bunny's origins, a review published...
A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology has carried out the first molecular dating on cockroaches in order...
An international team of researchers from the University of York, the Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, Washington State University and...
More than 50% of Europe’s forest coverage has vanished over a period of 6,000 years due to agricultural demands and the burning...
Initial theories on glacier refuges suggested that after the conclusion of the glaciations during the ice age, bears from northern Europe fled...
A BIG drop in global temperatures 12-14 million years ago may explain the evolutionary success of Australia’s unique marsupial carnivores, a new...
Which group of animals evolved first? This problem has become a bone of contention among biologists. An international research team is now...
The Central Iberian Peninsula was characterised by a very arid savanna during the middle Miocene, according to a study led by the...
A team of Tasmanian researchers has uncovered rare, living stromatolites deep within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Mammals only started being active in the daytime after non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out about 66 million years ago (mya), finds a...
Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to thirty thousand years ago – around ten millennia before experts...
There are precious few species today in the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar that scientists can trace directly back to when all of...
Ancient DNA extracted from fossil bones and museum specimens has shed new light on the mysterious loss of the Tasmanian tiger (thylacine)...
Saber-toothed kittens may have been born with thicker bones compared to other contemporary cats, but they have a similar pattern of bone...