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…