Apr 18, 2014 by News Staff

In two separate studies, geologists led by Dr Haley Sapers from the University of Western Ontario and Dr Pete Schultz of Brown University have found floral,...

Jul 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of archaeologists from the University of Tübingen, Germany, working in the Vogelherd Cave has unearthed what appears to be a fragment of animal...

Dec 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

7,000-year-old water wells unearthed in eastern Germany suggest that prehistoric farmers in Europe were skilled carpenters long before metal was discovered...

Oct 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...

Sep 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite,...

Sep 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water. An artist’s...

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 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...

Jul 27, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...

Jul 18, 2012 by News Staff

A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. Aerographite...

Jul 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

Jul 3, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany. Skeleton of Sciurumimus on a limestone...

May 25, 2012 by News Staff

Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments. Mammoth-, left, and bird-bone flutes...