For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

Twelve million years of history hidden beneath a Gascon pasture. In 2016, a French farmer, during routine work on his land, ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way.

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

AN extremely rare fish known for eating sharks has been caught off the UK coast. The prehistoric species usually lives hundreds of metres below the surface and can reach 100 years in age. The ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

In Scarborough, the remains of Gristhorpe Man, Britain's best-preserved Early Bronze Age skeleton were analysed and suggested that he was aged between 45 and 60 years, tall and muscular, and nourished ...

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

These prehistoric stone monuments, known as dolmens, are often found in European countries like Spain, France and the U.K., ...