According to British researchers, the idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century.
The discovery was made...
Paleontologists have described a huge new species of ichthyosaur based on a 244-million-year-old fossil found in the Nevada desert in 2010.
Left: skull...
A team of British and Greek archaeologists has unearthed over 300 clay figurines at the Neolithic archaeological site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece.
Clay...
An analysis of fossilized dinosaur tail bones suggests some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates.
Artist’s impression of Similicaudipteryx...
An agricultural suburb and other finds unearthed at Petra by archaeologists from the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project suggest that extensive...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed a temple and a cache of sacred vessels dating from around 738 BC during excavations...
According to a team of scientists headed by Prof Guillermo Ortí of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the extinct megapiranha (Megapiranha paranensis)...
U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects.
This is an artist’s reconstruction...
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...
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...
A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...
An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...
Analysis of skeletal remains found in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, has revealed that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the skull of a large rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption about 9.2 million years ago in what...
An international team of paleontologists has resolved the evolutionary relationships of strange prehistoric mammal Necrolestes patagonensis.
This illustration...
Paleontologists from the University of Florida have identified an ancient intermediate form of the white shark, which shows present-day white shark likely...
A team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has unearthed ruins of a 3,100-year-old temple at the site of Tel Beth-Shemesh.
This image shows ancient...
