Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 years ago, with a population ... which suggests that a highly advanced ancient civilization existed before ...

five million to 12 000 years ago. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Globe Institute, of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. I gather and study ancient proteins from the enamel off teeth from ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, chambered nautilus, platypus, and jellyfish are all ancient beings that ...

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says ... more than 12,000 years old ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

Weitzel also noted that the Natchez Trace itself was an ancient ... sites in the U.S. is Poverty Point, which dates back 3,500 years. "Native Americans built this mound complex 3,500 years ago ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

Each controls several genes at once. Incredibly, these super enhancers were very strongly selected when maize was domesticated 9,000 years ago. Martienssen explains, "We can now say that maize ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...