Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have discovered two of what are the oldest known parasitic interactions in history, in one case spanning a period of between 200 and 300 million... Read more
A Tyrannosaurus bone found in Wyoming has revealed something new about the species’ dietary habits that nobody suspected: T-Rexes may very well have liked to snack on each other. The l... Read more
A set of fossilised remains discovered during the construction of a landfill in Spain may cause the rewriting of ape and human evolution. The animal to which the bones belonged lived 11.6 mi... Read more
A discovery made just a mile from Stonehenge suggests that hunter-gatherer communities living in Britain towards the end of the Mesolithic were likely to adapt to their surroundings instead... Read more
A new study from the University of Wyoming has confirmed a theory first put forward in the 1970s about the role humans had in the extinction of large mammals, in what is now North and South... Read more
DNA analysis of two sets of remains discovered in Alaska has suggested that the first inhabitants of the North American continent came from Asia and for a while lived in Beringia, the landma... Read more
The great pyramids of Egypt have long baffled scientists because of their durability and construction precision. Now, with the help of modern scanning technology, researchers hope to at leas... Read more
Why is it that people, unlike almost every other animal, co-operate with individuals they have no immediate genetic relation to? There is a long-held belief that this tendency is somehow rel... Read more
An international team of researchers have discovered that the pathogen causing plague, Yersinia pestis, was common among humans much earlier than the first historical records of plague epide... Read more
The story of Cleopatra dying by “kissing” a snake is among the more romantic ancient Egyptian myths. However, a herpetologist from Manchester University says the chances of someone dying fro... Read more