The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia ...

Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

A global analysis reveals that most carbon dioxide emitted by rivers derives not from modern plant material, as was thought, but from ancient, buried carbon.

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.

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Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

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A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

Mouthing off. NOW, to get back to today’s otherworld society: Dentistry harks to 2600 BC. Egypt’s Hesy-Ra. In ancient Greece, Hippocrates and Aristotle wrote about extractions and gums.

A new discovery of a Roman army marching camp changes what we know about the frontier boundaries of the empire beyond the Rhine River. The camp was located within the forested Veluwe in the ...