Sep 26, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has created a lifelike reconstruction of a multiplacophoran, an ancient mollusk that lived about 390 million years...

Sep 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...

Sep 21, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An Italian-Aussie team of archaeologists has unearthed new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...

Sep 18, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent. The newly developed...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen suggest that eight extremely well-preserved wooden throwing spears found more than a decade ago in Germany...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama. Adult...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered what they believe is the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey. This...

Sep 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An archaeological team from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz has discovered the precise location of the oldest Roman military fortification known...

Sep 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...

Sep 3, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed 9,500-year-old figurines of a ram and a wild bovine at the Tel Moza archaeological site,...

Aug 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor has discovered the S.S. Terra Nova, a whaler, sealer and polar exploration...

Aug 18, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by Melbourne University researcher Prof John Hayman shows that some ancient marine animals, including ichthyosaurs, giant dolphin-like reptiles...

Aug 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside...

Aug 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Reconstructions...

Aug 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

The new genetic study by a multinational group of scientists has shown that a large percentage of genes in our bodies are likely to affect bone strength,...

Aug 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have used ancient DNA from bones of giant extinct New Zealand birds to show that significant climate and environmental changes did not have...

Jul 30, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the University of Bonn, Germany, has discovered a tomb of a young prince at the ancient Mayan city of Uxul. A cup from the...