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Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.

Blood from the last meal consumed by a mosquito 46 million years ago has been identified inside a fossilised mosquito...

Awarded annually for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, what are the Nobel Prizes?

A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called ‘bog body’ with intact skin...

This week, salvage experts have been trying to raise the capsized Costa Concordia...

New research suggests that the soil around ancient human remains has much to tell us about how those people died.

The first example of humans using flowers to mourn has been uncovered by Israeli archaeologists...

Did homeowners with a poor command of maths cause the global financial crisis, US researchers are wondering...?

Parents are subconsciously selecting names that linguistically portray bigger and stronger for boys, and more petite...

Why penguins have lost the power of flight have been revealed by new research on other aquatic birds...

Early farming evolved among cultures who developed property rights, new research suggests...

Marilyn Monroe and Barry White had it sussed decades ahead of the science, but now revealed: how you sound reveals your...

Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, giving us a greater insight into how...

A chance discovery in Yunnan province in China has yielded one of the oldest and most interesting collection of...

It has been a busy week for open access...

A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...

Cheese-making got started at least 7000 years ago, a new study from Poland has shown...

Bright light exposure at night harms your health and your memory, even if you think you are sleeping normally...

Delicate stone arrowheads dating from 71,000 years ago have been unearthed in South Africa, providing the earliest...

Eunuchs live up to 19 years longer than intact males...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered and analysed some remarkable stone age tools that they say are the...

The claim that people tend to look in one direction - up and to the left - when they are being honest, and a different...

Make no bones about it, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new research has revealed.

One of archaeology's greatest questions, "did farming move across Europe with knowledge or people?" is...