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...
A group of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge’s Archaeological Unit (CAU) has unearthed well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during an excavation...
A group of archaeologists led by Dr Christopher Standish from the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton suggests people were trading...
A group of paleontologists, led by Catherine Klein from the University of Bristol, UK, has put together the remains of a new small species of prehistoric...
In a new study published in the journal Nature, scientists used DNA samples collected from 2,039 people to create the fine-scale genetic map of British...
Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester, UK, and Prof Judy Massare of Brockport College in New York have discovered a new species of...
