Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

The digested meat from the wolf pup’s last meal, which took place a staggering 14,400 years ago, contained enough DNA from ...

A new study sheds new light on one of the ancient world’s most iconic yet elusive artistic symbols: the “Scythian animal style.” Study authors reported in Antiquity that they discovered the earliest ...

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied information.

Animism and invisible worlds : the place of non-humans in indigenous ontologies / Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva -- Too many owners : mastery and ownership in Amazonia / ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

For decades, scientists have studied the DNA of long-extinct animals found frozen in permafrost. However, researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden, have just completed a ...