An international team of paleontologists has made an extremely rare discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil ostracod crustacean with body, limbs, eyes,...
Scientists led by University of Bristol’s biogeochemist Prof Richard Evershed say they have evidence that humans in prehistoric Europe were making cheese...
Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, has reported results of the...
A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the Chicxulub asteroid collision, widely thought to have...
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have identified a gene that helps our body convert dietary carbohydrates into fat. The discovery...
European archaeologists believe they have finally found the exact location of the river harbor of Ostia.
This is an aerial view of Ostia and the position...
An international team of astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has...
A five-year study by British archaeologists sheds new light on the enigmatic drawings created by the Nazca people between 100 BC and CE 700 in the Peruvian...
An analysis of genome-wide data from 13 Romani groups collected across Europe shows that the Romani people originated in northwestern India some 1,500...
A computational analysis of the genomes of the papaya, poplar, grape, and a small flowering plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, has identified hundreds...
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of what might...
A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...
An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...
Scientists led by Prof Sebastian Jessberger of the University of Zurich’s Brain Research Institute, Switzerland, have discovered that neural stem cells...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...
