Aug 19, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of the extinct deer species Eocoileus gentryorum at the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site of northeastern...

May 23, 2024 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Tasmania and Western University have experimentally demonstrated that kangaroos, wallabies and other Australian marsupials...

Mar 11, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Pudella carlae is the first living cervid species described in the 21st century and the first from the New World in over six decades. Pudella carlae. Image...

Sep 12, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have discovered and examined over a hundred Paleolithic paintings and engravings — thought to be at least 24,000 years old —...

May 4, 2023 by News Staff

Application of a novel non-destructive DNA extraction method to a Paleolithic deer tooth pendant from Denisova Cave, Siberia, resulted in the recovery...

Mar 27, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described an extinct species of the fallow deer genus Dama from fossils found in Spain. Life reconstruction of Dama celiae in the...

Jul 7, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have uncovered a 51,000-year-old engraved giant deer phalanx in a cave in the Harz Mountains, Germany. The find, which came from an apparent...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have obtained radiocarbon dates for the faunal bones excavated from Coxcatlan Cave, a dry rock shelter located within the southern portion...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

Scottish archaeologist Hamish Fenton has discovered prehistoric animal carvings — thought to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old — inside...

Jun 17, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of archeologists has unearthed numerous L-shaped barbed antler objects at three early sites — Ust’-Polui, Tiutei-Sale I,...

Nov 1, 2019 by News Staff

The fossil tooth fragments from extinct rhinoceroses that lived 8-9 million years ago have been found in Canada’s Yukon Territory. An artist’s imagining...

Jul 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a study published June 25 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team of researchers reports lesions observed on two fallow...

Nov 2, 2017 by News Staff

A team of Chinese scientists has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of Rangifer tarandus (reindeer), the only fully domesticated species in...

Aug 9, 2017 by News Staff

Plants and the meat of mammoths, red deer and horses were a major part of the diet of anatomically modern humans who lived in what is now Crimea, Ukraine,...

Nov 2, 2014 by News Staff

The Kashmir musk deer (Moschus cupreus) – a small animal with vampire-like fangs – still lives in the eastern forests of Afghanistan more than...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Oryx shows that collaborative approaches to conservation can give hope to endangered species such as the South Andean...