Australia’s ancient rainfall patterns more complex than previously believed – News
Stock photo: Getty Images. Where and when water is available places a pivotal control on environments – with…
Ancient DNA rewrites the story of the extinct North America ‘Cheetah’
Ancient DNA shows the extinct “American cheetah,” Miracinonyx trumani, was actually the sister species of modern pumas, with…
John Leguizamo Says His “Ice Age” Paychecks Bought His Second and Third Homes and Paid for His Kids’ College Tuition
NEED TO KNOW John Leguizamo began voicing Sid the Sloth in the first Ice Age film in 2002…
Scientists Just Discovered Ancient Squirrels Were Way More Metal Than You Think
One of my favorite old-school ways to call someone crazy is saying they’re “nuttier than squirrel shit.” It’s…
146,000-year-old Ice Age humans used advanced stone tools for butchery and survival
A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans.…
Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
Japanese Archipelago Was Once a Refuge for Cave Lions
Between 73,000 and 20,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene), the Japanese Archipelago was inhabited by cave lions (Panthera spelaea),…
Giant prehistoric kangaroos were likely able to hop, fossil study suggests
For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body…
Tectonic Plate Movements, Not Volcanoes, Drove Major Climate Shifts Over 540 Million Years
New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the…
Oldest RNA ever discovered offers a rare look into the lives of woolly mammoths
Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…
Climate change in the Arctic: How melting ice is causing Greenland to ‘shrink’
Published on 16/10/2025 – 8:00 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT As climate change hits the Arctic with accelerating speed, Greenland is…