The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat (Felis lybica lybica). Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful...
Wolves, the wild ancestor of dogs, are the only large carnivores that have undergone domestication by humans. Yet, it remains unclear if this process took...
The new map and digital dataset, named Itiner-e, increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road system by over 110,000 km.
Itiner-e is the most...
Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have described a new species...
A small, isolated population of common hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) was present in the Upper Rhine Graben in southwestern Germany during the middle...
Blue pigments are absent in Paleolithic art. This has been ascribed to a lack of naturally occurring blue pigments or low visual salience of these hues....
Scientifically named Galgadraco zephyrius, the new species represents the first Brazilian azhdarchid pterosaur and bears striking similarities to a species...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of Eurhinosaurus — a genus of European longirostrine ichthyosaur characterized by its remarkable overbite...
Archaeologists have discovered two Neanderthals tracksites in the southwestern most region of Europe: at Monte Clérigo, dated to 78,000 years ago, trackways...
A team of paleontologists from Portugal, Italy, the United States and Belgium has added another species of herbivorous dinosaur to the prehistoric catalog:...
Paleontologists have screened 24-million-year-old fossil flowers and bees from the Late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany, and identified a new species of linden,...
The second half of the first millennium CE in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This period...
Several new species of coelacanths that lived at the end of the Triassic period, some 200 million years ago, have been identified from museum specimens...
The Neanderthal variant in AMPD1 decreases its enzymatic activity by 25% in lab-produced proteins and by up to 80% in the muscles of genetically engineered...
Paleontologists have identified an unusual new genus and species of early-diverging plesiosauroid plesiosaur from a nearly complete skeleton found in the...
Rhynchocephalians — members of a sister group of squamates (lizards, snakes, and worm lizards) that includes the living tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Triassic drepanosauromorph diapsid with striking integumentary appendages — which are neither...
First published in 1865 as a caterpillar, nearly fifty years before the discovery of Canada’s Burgess Shale, Palaeocampa anthrax shuffled between classifications...
Paleontologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in the Klettgau...
The Solnhofen Archipelago is a series of islands that existed during the Late Jurassic epoch in what is now Bavaria, Germany.
Life representation of Sphenodraco...
