Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

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Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

For centuries, the people of Judaea had seen many foreign dynasts claim hegemony over them; the Greeks were but the latest.

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...