Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land. Credit: Dr ...
Tag: Prehistoric
Prehistoric roots of ‘cold sore’ virus traced through ancient herpes DNA
Ancient genomes from the herpes virus that commonly causes lip sores – and currently infects some 3.7 billion people globally ...
A new giant dinosaur gives insight into why many prehistoric meat-eaters had such tiny arms
A team co-led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleagues Juan Canale and Sebastian Apesteguía ...
Prehistoric faeces reveal parasites from feasting at Stonehenge
A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of ...
A prehistoric forest grows in Brunei
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of ...
Marine mollusc shells reveal how prehistoric humans adapted to intense climate change
Current global climatic warming is having, and will continue to have, widespread consequences for human history, in the same way ...
Prehistoric people created art by firelight, new research reveals
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. ...
Collectors in the prehistoric world recycled old stone tools to preserve the memory of their ancestors
Credit: Tel Aviv University The researchers: "Based on our findings we argue that prehistoric humans' practice of recycling old ...
Prehistoric human vertebra discovered in the Jordan Valley tells the story of prehistoric migration from Africa
Credit: Dr. Alon Barash, Bar-Ilan University A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, ...
Nibbling prehistoric herbivore sheds new light on Triassic diversity
A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach ...
Prehistoric mums may have cared for kids better than we thought
A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a ...
Prehistoric humans rarely mated with their cousins
The researchers re-analyzed previously published DNA data from ancient humans that lived during the last 45,000 years to find out ...
Prehistoric climate change repeatedly channelled human migrations across Arabia
Recent research in Arabia – a collaboration between scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History ...