Tag: New World

It is the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found.Credit: Credit: Andrew Czaja of University of Cincinnati. When you think of fungi, ...

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for ...

Like many of today's millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expectedCredit: Illustration by Danielle Dufault © Royal ...

Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The history of the Caribbean's original islanders comes into sharper focus in a ...

Credit: University of Cordoba Solar radiation, rain, humidity and extreme temperatures. Cultural heritage is exposed to an array of external ...

Credit: San Bartolo-Xultun Regional Archaeological Project Sweat baths have a long history of use in Mesoamerica. Commonly used by midwives ...

Results show possible council circle at what may be Etzanoa near WichitaCredit: Images by Jesse Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier, and ...

A new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the legendary giant ...

Researchers discover Fossil evidence of 'hibernation-like' state in tusks of 250-million-year-old Antarctic animalCredit: Crystal Shin Among the many winter survival ...

Humans prepared beds to sleep on right at the dawn of our species -- over 200 000 years agoCredit: A. ...

Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University ...

The animal was approximately 10 cm long and lived more than 130 million years ago in what is now the ...

Isotope analysis suggest clues to the manufacture and distribution of qerosCredit: Alyson Thibodeau (Carlisle, Pa.) - Researchers studying lead white ...

Credit: Dr Martin Bates, UWTSD Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through ...

Credit: Ben Hur Marimon Junior Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continues to have an impact on the ...

Credit: WSU When it comes to the great civilizations of human history, the pen really might have been mightier than ...

This material is not a semi-fossilized resinCredit: Xavier Delclòs (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) The known Madagascar copal is a more recent ...

Credit: Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest ...

An interdisciplinary study into the origins and health status of three African skeletons unearthed in Mexico shows evidence of forced ...

Credit: Collection: San José de los Naturales, Post Graduate Studies Osteology Laboratory, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia Photo: Rodrigo ...