Mar 13, 2020 by News Staff

The footprints of stegosaurs, carnivorous theropods and huge herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs that date back to 170 million years ago (Middle Jurassic...

Dec 17, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered an ancient tetrapod (land vertebrate) trackway in North Yorkshire, England, dating back to the Carboniferous period. Made...

Sep 30, 2019 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists from Cotswold Archaeology and Kier Construction has uncovered the remains of a previously unknown Roman military site —...

Sep 27, 2019 by News Staff

A team of scientists from King’s College London, University College London and the University of Manchester has identified 44 genes linked to age-related...

Sep 13, 2019 by News Staff

An incomplete crocodile skull found near the city of Altdorf in Bavaria, southern Germany, in the 1770s has been recognized as Mystriosaurus laurillardi,...

Sep 10, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has announced the results of investigations into the environmental DNA (eDNA) present in Loch Ness, a large freshwater...

Aug 21, 2019 by News Staff

Underwater archaeologists working off the coast of the Isle of Wight have discovered an 8,000-year-old structure next to what is believed to be the world’s...

Aug 9, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Archaeology Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands has unearthed the remains of a large Norse building...

Jul 17, 2019 by News Staff

Lipid (fat) residues identified in Grooved Ware pottery from Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge, have been interpreted as evidence for large-scale feasting...

Jun 28, 2019 by News Staff

In a new study published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers from Aston University collected and analyzed 19,937 flying insects...

Jun 4, 2019 by News Staff

In 2015, a team of archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen investigated an eroded sea stack near the site of the ruined Dunnottar Castle in Scotland...

May 27, 2019 by News Staff

A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester and elsewhere. Archaeologist Adam...

Apr 12, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has found the remains of an extinct sea cucumber in 430 million-year-old (Silurian period) fossil-rich deposits...

Mar 20, 2019 by News Staff

A team of professional and amateur archaeologists believe they may have discovered the monastery of Aebbe (615-683 CE), a powerful Anglo-Saxon woman who...

Mar 12, 2019 by News Staff

A group of Roman inscriptions, known as the Written Rock of Gelt, was discovered in the 18th century, but has suffered in recent years as a result of the...

Feb 20, 2019 by News Staff

Geologists and archaeologists have long known that the builders of Stonehenge made use of two main types of stone: a silcrete, known as ‘sarsen,’ was...

Jan 21, 2019 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of St Andrews, UK, believe they have found the earliest surviving example of a classroom periodic table. The St Andrews periodic...

Jan 2, 2019 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has rediscovered a large, well-preserved subterranean ice-well dating from 1780. Located...

Dec 28, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the University of Portsmouth have discovered the fossilized remains of a new species of ancient flying reptile. Klobiodon rochei....

Dec 19, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists in southern England have uncovered a set of well-preserved footprints made by at least seven different dinosaur species about 140 million...