Etruscan amphorae and a limestone pressing platform unearthed at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest known...
British scientists have provided evidence that ancient Egyptians used meteorite iron to make accessories as early as 3,300 BC.
The Gerzeh bead is the earliest...
Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago.
Skull of the...
Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color.
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An international group of paleontologists writing in the journal Nature Communications has described two new prehistoric species of crocodile from fossils...
Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...
Using high-resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, Dr Stephan Lautenschlager from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and Dr...
An international team of genetic scientists has completed the genomic sequence of the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii).
Tibetan antelope, or chiru,...
Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...
Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...
According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...
A team of biologists headed by Dr James Austin from the University of Florida in Gainesville has described a new species of green palm-pitviper from a...
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...
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...
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...
According to a new research by archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg, inhabitants of a small Neolithic farming village located in modern-day...
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...
Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade.
Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...
New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...
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.
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