During the sixth millennium B.C.E., carvers in present-day Sweden etched patterns into the artifact before redecorating it in ...

Scientists from King's College London have managed to grow a tooth under laboratory conditions. And while this breakthrough ...

A discovery near the town of Tran has revealed that a dinosaur from the titanosaur group — the same family as the largest ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the ...

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about our human ancestors - The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been r ...

Hélène Monod, from Universidad Rovira i Virgili in Spain, looked at our Quina scrapers under the microscope and found traces on them from scraping and scratching bones, antlers and wood. She also ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Human faces are famously flatter ... That slow-down isn’t just in timing — it’s visible under the microscope. Modern humans showed less bone resorption across the face, a sign of reduced ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...