Working with lead isotopes taken from tooth enamel of prehistoric animals, researchers have developed a brand new methodology for assessing the geographic origins of historical people.

Researchers have succeeded in extracting a whole human genome from a thousands-of-years previous 'chewing gum.' Based on the researchers, it's a new untapped supply of historic DNA.

For many years, an historic Egyptian generally known as Advantage Ptah has been celebrated as the primary feminine doctor and a task mannequin for ladies coming into medication. But a researcher now says she by no means existed and is an instance of how misconceptions can unfold.

Canada's northernmost islands, Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands in Nunavut, had been dwelling to a vibrant, temperate forest 56 million years in the past, in line with fossil analysis.

The invention of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gasoline enabled a crew of astronomers to carry out the earliest-ever measurement of how the universe was enriched with a variety of chemical parts. Their findings reveal that the primary technology of stars fashioned extra rapidly than beforehand thought.

Paleontologists have used fashionable instruments to determine the origins of some fragments of tooth discovered greater than 4 a long time in the past by a schoolteacher within the Yukon.

Buried alongside the well-known Ötzi the Iceman are no less than 75 species of bryophytes -- mosses and liverworts -- which maintain clues to Ötzi's environment, in keeping with a brand new research.

Considerable dinosaur footprints in Alaska reveal that high-latitude hadrosaurs most popular tidally influenced habitats.

The Roman delicacies spent 1,800 years on the underside of the Mediterranean to change into a real ‘feast’ for the archeologists, who stated that they’ve stumbled upon among the finest preserved shipwrecks from the interval. ...

Western Australia's well-known three.5-billion-year-old stromatolites include microbial stays of a number of the earliest life on Earth, scientists have discovered.