May 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...

May 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new research reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE, ancient people on the southern coast of China about 4,500-5,300 years ago relied...

May 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new paleontological study published in the journal Evolution reveals that a small flying dinosaur known as Microraptor was able to swoop down and pick...

Apr 30, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new research by archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg, inhabitants of a small Neolithic farming village located in modern-day...

Apr 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ibaraki have precisely measured the brain size of Homo...

Apr 23, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade. Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...

Apr 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...

Apr 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a pioneering study detailed in the journal Nature, hunter-gatherers were using pots for cooking fish as early as 15,000 years ago. Left: a...

Apr 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers. Carnivorous two-legged...

Apr 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that more than 1,000 bird species became extinct on Pacific islands...

Mar 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

University of Southampton paleontologists have described a completely new genus and species of small prehistoric flying reptile from a fossil discovered...

Mar 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...

Mar 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

Mar 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...

Mar 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Tennessee and North Carolina State University, have found the...

Feb 28, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion. Outdated...

Feb 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on...

Feb 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has found remains of an industrial installation dating back to the Byzantine period (600...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Strontium isotope data from the Danube Gorges in the north-central Balkan show Europe’s first farmers were immigrants. “One of the big questions...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by Prof Paul Else of the University of Wollongong, Australia, suggests dinosaurs may have produced a kind of milk for their offspring. “But...