More than 5,500 years ago, a deadly plague swept through prehistoric communities in Siberia, leaving behind one of humanity’s oldest known epidemics. Ancient DNA extracted from human remains has now revealed the world’s earliest confirmed plague outbreak. The discovery challenges the belief that major diseases emerged only after the rise of cities and farming.
Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages.
Scientists have long believed that Fibonacci spirals are an ancient and highly conserved feature in plants. But, a new study challenges this belief.
With a wingspan stretching up to a staggering 40 feet, Quetzalcoatlus holds the title for being the largest known flying animal to have ever graced our planet. Although it shared the same era with the mighty dinosaurs, Quetzalcoatlus was not a dinosaur itself.
According to the scientists, A secret world of animals and plants – including unknown species – might live in warm caves under Antarctica's glaciers.
Trees are believed to have lived through extremes of complete darkness and continuous sunlight
The ultra-black skin of the species enables them to hide in the pitch-dark depths of the ocean in order to ambush their prey.
Meganeuropsis permiana is an extinct species of insect that lived during the Carboniferous period. It is known for being the largest flying insect that ever existed.
The 400,000-year-old bones contain evidence of and unknown species, has made scientists question everything they know about human evolution.
The stone object claimed to be a 100-million-year-old fossilized human finger calls into question the viewpoint of accepted anthropology. Are we being served "filtered information"? Are that many things regarding the distant past of mankind have been kept safe away from society? What if our History is all wrong?
