Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a ...

A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

Scientific studies aimed at unlocking the genetic code of all humans have had problems with their data: it was mostly collected from people with “European” heritage, leaving wide gaps in the study of ...