The dried milk brought in 1908 by Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition shows remarkable similarities with today’s milk
The abundance of European insect invaders may be a result of deliberate introductions of non-native plants into Europe’s colonies
Researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds
A model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
First evidence that giant ostrich-like birds once roamed Europe comes from the Taurida Cave in Crimea; that was discovered only the last summer
Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions continue
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
