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…
Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roamed across Prehistoric Europe
Chemical clues preserved in the teeth of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the 125,000-year-old site of Neumark-Nord in…
40,000-Year-Old Ice Age Symbols May Be First Step in Writing
The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave. (Photo: University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen CC BY 4.0) Long before…
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…
18,000-Year-Old Circular Dwellings Made of Mammoth Bones Unearthed in Ukraine
The Upper Paleolithic site of Mezhyrich, located in Cherkasy oblast, central Ukraine, is home to four remarkable mammoth…
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…
Ancient rock art in Saudi Arabia hints at how humans repopulated desert at end of last ice age
Dozens of life-sized rock engravings of camels and other desert-dwellers in Saudi Arabia have revealed that humans thrived…
A dangerous glitch in the carbon cycle could freeze Earth over
In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and…