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Cruxatodon kiltlingtonensisA small mammal from the Jurassic periodMaiya Carrara During the Middle Jurassic, small mammals lived much longer than modern ones and received parental care for…
Argentine archaeologists analyzed 21,000-year-old fossil remains bearing cut marks belonging to a specimen of the extinct glyptodon. NeosclerocalyptusThe discovery, made in the northeast of the Pampean…
Amoebidium appalachenseViruses in protists closely related to animals weave remnants of ancient giant viruses into their genetic code, according to a new study led by Queen…
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have announced the discovery of ancient chromosome subfossils in a female mammoth fossil.Mammutus primigeniusThe mammoth, a species…
In a new study, planetary scientists have found strong similarities between the soil of Gale Crater on Mars and that of the cold, sub-Arctic climate of…
Dingo (Dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depends on understanding their origins and population history. New ResearchIssued…
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continent.Dominique Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient dingo DNA suggests that Australia's native wild dogs arrived in two migration…
The snow leopard was one of the animals hunted by the DenisovansKlaus Honal / Alamy The ancient humans known as the Denisovans hunted a wide variety…
Ancient ritual sticks discovered in Australia's Clogs CaveGunaikurnai Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation Wooden artefacts found in Australian caves suggest Aboriginal rituals recorded in the 19th…
The ancient ship and its cargo are estimated to date to the 13th century BC, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. Canaanite amphorae…
Coloured dyes were essential commodities in the Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Berger and his colleagues unearthed a purple dye factory at site K10…
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the so-called Sacramento in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.…
Pachystropheus reticulum One of the last thalattosaurs, it was a large marine lizard with otter-like behaviour that could move on land, but was likely a primarily…
Animal sculptures carved into rocks along the Orinoco River in South AmericaPhilip Riris et al. The prehistoric rock carvings of giant snakes along the Orinoco River…
Artistic reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, an ancient relative of the gooseIllustration by Jacob C. Blokland Australia's prehistoric ptarmigan, once thought to be an ancestor of the…
About 12,440 to 12,550 years ago, hunter-gatherers regularly returned to Chile’s Lake Taguatagua to hunt an ancient elephant relative called Gomphotherium and exploit other local resources,…
The skeletal remains of a 4,000-year-old Scandinavian man were discovered in 1916. Hitla island, Norway. The male Hitra was approximately 169 cm tall, had blond hair…
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered very old stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a cloud of stars that covers the entire disk…
Archaeologists from Macquarie University and the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures have discovered 16 new rock art sites in Sudan's eastern…
A research team led by University of Cincinnati archaeologists has found evidence of an assemblage of four species of ceremonial plants beneath the endfield of a…
Reinterpretation of etching Matthew Attard and Galeria Michela Rizzo Maltese artists at the 60th Venice Biennale Matthew Attard Through the prism of AI-driven technology, we address…
New archaeological excavations show that the Umm Jirsan lava tubes in Halat Khyber, northwestern Saudi Arabia, have been repeatedly visited by humans from at least the…
Ornaments found with burned royal bodies in Mayan temple Dr. Christina T. Halperin About 1,200 years ago, the bones of several royals were burned in a…
Researchers investigate Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava tube systemPALAEODESERTS project, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Archaeologists have discovered, for the first time, evidence of human habitation inside a…
Illustration of a carcass of Ichthyotitan severnensis washed up on the beachSergey Krasovsky The fossilized remains of an ancient 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur unearthed on the coast…
According to a team of experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Friborg, this unusual amulet seal is at least 2,800 years old…
Paleontologists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and others have discovered a partial fossil of an ancient tapeworm preserved in…
A post-medieval silver thimble was discovered by Robert Edwards while metal detecting in Pembrokeshire, a county in south-west Wales. An ancient silver thimble discovered in the…
Historically, the brain was not always recognized as the center of thought. In ancient Egypt, it was believed that the heart held intellect and the soul,…
The newly identified structures, called Shakti and Shiva, are between 12 billion and 1 billion years old, making them so old that they are even older…
More than 7,000 years ago, Neolithic people used technologically sophisticated boats to navigate the Mediterranean Sea, according to a new study. The 7,300-year-old canoe Marmotta 1…
Ruins in the Ethiopian lowlands where ancient humans lived 74,000 years ago John Kappelman A campsite in what is now Ethiopia may have been used in…
Canoes are up to 10 meters long and are made by hollowing out trees. Gibaja et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 More than 7,000 years…
An intact ax with an intact handle was found under one of the burnt structures on the grounds of Mast Farm.cambridge archaeological unit The ruins of…
Many individuals engage in fishing for both sustenance and recreation in modern times. Ever pondered about the origins of fishing? While fishing has been a part…
Paleontologists at the University of California, Davis and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History estimate that: Colossus of PercetusA gigantic basilosaur whale that lived…
WASHINGTON — Tails were once a feature of our ancient animal ancestors. Why did they disappear?Around 20 to 25 million years ago, during the split between…
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers observed a very red quasar-like object. A2744-QSO1 Its color suggests that A2744-QSO1's black hole lies behind a thick…
Ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls can be damaged by fungi Paul Williams / Alamy Wasabi steam is powerful enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus pieces…
The history of water on Mars is an interesting mystery not only to planetary scientists but also to the general public. The Red Planet currently has…