In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

An amateur archaeologist from Oxfordshire named Hamish Fenton stumbled upon the oldest animal rock carvings in Scotland, possibly even the oldest of their type in the entirety of the United Kingdom.

The black and white markings on its face make the Badger a very distinctive and unmistakable wild animal that everybody knows ...

Above, the puffin peers out, as if contemplating launching itself from the ledge; the crowd holds its collective breath and ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

The forest was then further uncovered by storms in 2014 and Storm Hannah in 2019. The submerged woodland between Ynyslas and ...

A skeleton found in a 4,500-year-old ceramic pot has rewritten the history of Ancient Egypt. A DNA test on the man’s bones ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...