Costa Rica's Museo Nacional announces a groundbreaking fossil discovery in Cartago, including remains of a mastodon-like Cuvieronius and giant Eremotherium sloth.

Apteribis, an extinct species of ibis that once inhabited the Hawaiian Islands, occupied a niche similar to that of the New Zealand kiwi: a nocturnal, flightless bird that relies on tactile cues from ...

Ian Deveney made his find on land between Inverness and the 280-year-old battlefield.

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Across Scotland, 178 incidents of cooking oil thefts were reported to police between April to October last year.

We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.

An ingenious Warhammer 40,000 loving baker from Sweden has a novel way of building armies - making them entirely out of cookie.

The red-necked ostrich was identified as the closest relative of the extinct Arabian ostrich, and for its ability to survive in extreme desert conditions.

Smithsonian researcher Brian Gratwicke and colleagues describe how acoustic technology aided the remarkable rediscovery of four amphibian populations thought to have vanished from Panama’s mountain fo...