A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

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Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

Madelaine Böhme, Jérôme Prieto: The last European Neocometes (Rodentia: Platacanthomyidae) from the early Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Germany). Fossil Imprint, ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

Design: Peter Nickolaus Artist's reconstruction of a spiny dormouse in the wetlands of the Hammerschmiede inset shows the upper molar ...

Smaller cats had a few advantages. They need less food. Plus, they’re spry. Massive lions are successful hunters just 20% of the time. But African wildcats bring down a whopping 60% of their prey.

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

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