Updated 12 June, 2020 - 18:43 ancient-origins The discovery of large, well-preserved footprints belonging to an ancestor of modern-day crocodiles from the Lower…
Updated 18 September, 2019 - 19:36 dhwty Mokèlé-mbèmbé is the name given to a creature believed to inhabit the upper reaches of the…
Measuring about the same size as an adult human, o viraptorids, were bird like “ maniraptoran dinosaurs ”, genetically closer to birds than to ornithomimids,…
Since the first fossils of a reptile species called Tanystropheus were discovered in 1852, paleontologists have been attempting to discern how and where…
By Pierre Tran Paris – Dassault Aviation insisted on being appointed lead prime contractor and architect on a European next generation fighter jet,…
Jay L. Zagorsky / The Conversation Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather…
Neanderthals have been recognized as a species distinct from modern humans for quite some time. But if a trio of researchers from universities…
By Eva-Maria Geigl & Thierry Grange/The Conversation How did our species, Homo sapiens , arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology &…
By Liza Lester/AGU One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally…
This artistic-anthropological mystery was solved after a team of researchers analyzed a curious stone, depicted in a 15th century French painting. Merging the…
Updated 21 January, 2019 - 18:53 Ed Whelan It has long been debated as to how our ancient ancestors were able to kill…
The first researchers of Paleolithic caves and sites related to the earliest humans called the people who left paintings and other pieces of…