The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch
The discovery of Alcmonavis poeschli has implications for the debate over whether active flapping birds arose from gliding birds
Most amber inclusions are organisms from the forest. It is very rare to find sea life: a new study now reports the first known ammonite trapped in amber
Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL research.
A new study points out that European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians
The deepest layers of ice found in the Col du Dôme of the Mont Blanc glacier provide a record of atmospheric conditions and pollution in the Roman era
The new species, named Ambopteryx longibrachium, belongs to the Scansoriopterygidae, one of the most bizarre groups of non-avian theropods
Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the Cambrian explosion
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments
A new tyrannosauroid dinosaur, Suskityrannus hazelae, was only marginally longer than the just the skull of a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex
