General dorsal view of holotype of new late Cretaceous worker ants Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri. Credit: WANG Bo
Ants comprise one lineage of the triumvirate of eusocial insects and experienced their early diversification within the Cretaceous. The success of ants is generally...
Residues of plant remains were obtained from sediments in the archaeological layers. Credit: Nicole Boivin
Researchers have helped solve one of the enduring mysteries of the ancient world: why the inhabitants of Madagascar speak Malagasy, a language otherwise unique to...
A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the "Young Man of Byrsa" or "Ariche". This is the first ancient DNA to...
A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to life in the polar regions.
Previously, scientists had thought that creatures living...
These are maxilla of the young malleodectid -- a snail-eating marsupial -- found in the fossil cave deposit at Riversleigh. Because this is a juvenile, the massive premolar is still unerupted below the tooth row. Credit: Karen Black and...
The complete mitogenome of Pestera Muierii woman has been retrieved.Credit: E. Trinkaus and A. Soficaru
A research group has managed to retrieve the mitochondrial genome of a fossil 35,000 years old found in the Pestera Muierii cave in Romania. That...
Areas of the UK heavily affected by the Black DeathAntiquity/University of Lincoln
An innovative new archaeological study has revealed in detail for the first time how individual towns, villages and hamlets across swathes of medieval England were decimated by the...
First-ever CT scans of the skull of the Cretaceous creature Pawpawsaurus allowed reconstruction to evaluate the armored dinosaur's senses of hearing and smell. Credit: Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Yuong-Nam Lee, Louis L. Jacobs. Endocranial Morphology of the Primitive Nodosaurid Dinosaur Pawpawsaurus...
Funnel for beer making from Mijiaya. Credit: Jiajing Wang.
Residue on pottery unearthed at an archeological site in northern China has revealed traces of a 5,000-year-old beer recipe that contained elements of East and West, researchers said Monday.
The site offers...
This is Sclerocormus parviceps, the newly described marine reptile. Credit: Copyright Da-yong Jiang
Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in a tail-spin--climate change, volcanic eruptions, and rising sea levels contributed to a mass extinction that...
Image showing variation between nose shape and the specific genes responsible. Credit: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari, UCL
Genes that drive the shape of human noses have been identified by a UCL-led study.
The four genes mainly affect the width and 'pointiness' of...
