A long-held archaeological mystery has been solved as researchers have revealed the exact location, extent and character of a huge winter camp of the Viking...
An international team of scientists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Sweden has used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance...
A fossil crustacean, discovered by a University of Leicester-led team of paleontologists, has been named Cascolus ravitis in honor of the naturalist and...
According to a study led by University of Exeter researcher Daniel Cox, people living in neighborhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely...
If you want to win an Oscar it is best to be an American actor in a movie that portrays American culture. That is the conclusion of a paper by an international...
Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology working at Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a wealth of Roman and Anglo-Saxon...
The ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior) is one of Europe’s largest native deciduous trees. Image credit: Matthieu Sontag / CC-BY-SA.
Ash trees (genus Fraxinus)...
A strange brown pebble found near Bexhill in Sussex, UK, has been identified as the first known example of fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur.
Brain...
Great tits (Parus major) pick their spring breeding sites to be near their winter flockmates, according to a new study by scientists at the University...
According to a team of researchers at Loughborough University, UK, many four-year-olds are not physically ready to start school.
Movement for Learning....
New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain...
Amateur archaeologist has found a beautifully crafted miniature bronze figure of the Roman goddess Ceres at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields, UK.
Councilor...
Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have made remarkable discoveries about everyday life in the Bronze Age during the excavation of ancient...
A new species of ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago has been identified from a fossil found in a quarry in Nottinghamshire, England.
Reconstruction...
New research published online in the journal PLoS ONE is the first scientific analysis of the oldest known evidence of a shamanic costume in Europe.
Depiction...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a...
A team of professional, student and volunteer archaeologists led by the University of Sheffield has unearthed evidence of a nearly 1,350-year-old Anglo-Saxon...
An 11,000-year-old engraved shale pendant has been found during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, UK.
11,000-year-old engraved shale...
