An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa 1, an archaeological site ...

Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old roundworm, *Panagrolaimus kolymaensis*, discovered in Siberian permafrost. Radiocarbon dating confirms its a ...

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.

Our Pleistocene family tree is in no way restricted to simply just us, the neanderthals and the denisovans. Throughout the course of this iconic epoch of the Cenozoic, the Homo genus was experimenting ...

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

A miner digging for gold instead dug up the remains of a baby woolly mammoth. The discovery gives scientists the chance to ...

Bears remember everything, especially if it involves food. They are also curious and strong. That makes for a dangerous combination.

The river winds through natural Florida landscape where you might spot turtles, fish, and even an occasional alligator lounging on the banks. Buccaneer Bay, Florida’s only spring-fed water park, sits ...

A new bill targets a predator some Arizona ranchers say is killing their livelihood as well as their livestock.

Article Published: 01 July 1967 Oxygen Isotope Analyses and Pleistocene Temperatures Re-assessed NICHOLAS SHACKLETON Nature 215, 15–17 (1967) Cite this article ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

The team sent the fossil to Philip Piper, a coauthor of the new study, who was looking through the animal remains. “He called me up and said, Hello mate, you've got human remains,” Mijares says.