Jan 25, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of archaeologists led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has found a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines...

Jan 10, 2012 by James Freeman

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old seal with the Temple Menorah during excavations near the city of Akko. According to the Israel...

Dec 28, 2011 by James Freeman

A team of archaeologists led by Álvaro Arrizabalaga of the University of the Basque Country has unearthed a pendant, which they believe to be 25,000 years...

Dec 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Syrian archaeologists have unearthed an early Christian church and a cemetery at the site of Tal Hasaka, northeastern Syria, according to the Syrian Arab...

Dec 18, 2011 by James Freeman

British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas. The...

Dec 15, 2011 by James Freeman

This week a team of archaeologists began to explore an area near the city of Erzin in the province of Hatay, southern Turkey, where the ancient town of...

Dec 11, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from Université de La Réunion, Réunion, have found that Barau’s petrels synchronize their migration with the full Moon when travel...

Dec 7, 2011 by James Freeman

NASA scientists presented a mosaic image of Vesta’s southern hemisphere, showing different rock or mineral types, created from images obtained by...

Dec 6, 2011 by James Freeman

Russian palaeozoologists have discovered 40,000-year-old remains of a young woolly mammoth in Yakutia. Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum (Tracy O) The...

Dec 2, 2011 by James Freeman

Archaeologists from the Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt have discovered unknown Coptic city dating back to the fourth century CE,...

Dec 1, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Nov 28, 2011 by James Freeman

An international team of archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham has discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment...

Nov 27, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found that children who consumed fish before nine months...

Nov 24, 2011 by James Freeman

A team of researchers from Ireland and Canada suggested that both high and low levels of salt intake may put people with heart disease or diabetes at increased...

Nov 23, 2011 by James Freeman

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...

Nov 18, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...

Nov 17, 2011 by James Freeman

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...

Nov 16, 2011 by James Freeman

Geologists at MIT and Harvard University have unearthed rare, flask-shaped microfossils dating back 635 to 715 million years, representing the oldest known...

Nov 15, 2011 by James Freeman

The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large...

Oct 11, 2011 by James Freeman

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school...