They lived off the sea, consuming oysters. Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers. In some locations ...

An Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, Or Graur, discovered what is believed to be the oldest known depiction of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian art.

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off before the last common ancestor of today’s alligators and crocodiles, carrying characteristics that are ...

A 500,000-year-old tool-making workshop, potentially the oldest in North India, has been discovered in the Mangar Bani forests of Haryana. The site reveals a treasure trove of Lower Palaeolithic ...

they discovered detailed records of blue lotus preparations used to treat everything from pain and inflammation to anxiety and sleep disorders. The ancient Egyptians created tinctures, oils ...

All kinds of species and their ancient behaviors The footprints, found in various layers, give an insight into the types of species that passed through the area centuries ago. For example ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales have visited an ancient forest alongside children and their parents to celebrate the environment. William and Kate spent the second and final day of their Isle of ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...

“These ancient sharks have a confusing name, as Pararhincodon translates as ‘nearly whale shark’,” Richard explains. “But collared carpet sharks have always been small sharks less than a metre long.” ...

"This is the first-ever molecular cloud discovered by looking for far-ultraviolet ... perhaps having been emptied by the shockwaves of hundreds of ancient supernovas. The sun and our solar system ...

Members of Picuris Pueblo, an Indigenous American tribe based near Taos, New Mexico, knew they were connected to ancient settlements at Chaco Canyon, 275 kilometres to the west. Picuris oral ...