Did Dogs Come from Central Asia?
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, this much science has established, but the place and time this occurred is still shrouded in mystery. A new paper, authored by geneticist Adam...
View ArticleHumans Change Habitats More Quickly Than Thought
A new study from the University of Florida has suggested that human presence, and not just human-driven climate change, can have a drastic effect on biodiversity, at least on islands. In a press...
View ArticleMyth of Cleopatra’s Death Debunked
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 from a snake...
View ArticlePlague Emerged in the Bronze Age
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 epidemics...
View ArticleMarriage Dispersal Drives Human Co-operation
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 related to...
View ArticleCutting-Edge Tech Could Reveal How Pyramids Were Built
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 least catch a...
View ArticleInfant Fossils Shed Light on Native American Lineages
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 landmass that...
View ArticleHunting Contributed to Mammoth Demise
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 America....
View Article6,300-Year-Old “Eco Home” Found Near Stonehenge
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 of changing...
View ArticleFossils of a New Ape Species Cause Rethink of Evolution
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 million years...
View ArticleT-Rex Bone Speaks of Cannibalism
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 lead researcher...
View Article200-Million-Year-Old Parasitic Interaction Uncovered
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 years,...
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