The stone walls of Matera do not whisper history—they press it into the air. The scent of damp limestone still clings to cave ...
A story about a “mysterious power plug” turning up in a 100,000‑year‑old cave sounds tailor‑made for viral headlines and late ...
Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...
The digested meat from the wolf pup’s last meal, which took place a staggering 14,400 years ago, contained enough DNA from ...
Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...
Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...