History & Archaeology

Bones suggest the largest carnivorous dinosaur was a good swimmer

Clarity at last: Spinosaurus was probably excellent at hunting ill-fated prey underwater. the terrifying spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered – it...

Colored skeletons in Çatalhöyük

Skeleton of a man from Çatalhöyük with vermilion painting on the skull. © Marco Milella The inhabitants of the Stone Age settlement of Çatalhöyük...

Beginnings of paleontological art

With the conversion of a pterosaur fossil into a "living" drawing, Georg August Goldfuss provided one of the first examples of the scientifically sound...

Archaeologists make remarkable discovery under battered Notre Dame

During restoration work, an enigmatic lead sarcophagus, containing human remains, was unearthed. France was shaken up in 2019 when their beloved cathedral, Notre Dame,...

Diaries of a Genocide

Analysis of Lothar von Trotha's diaries and photos. © Damian Gorczany/ RUB Between 1904 and 1908 German colonial troops committed genocide against the Herero...

Broken dinosaur wrist discovered in Russia

The hapless dinosaur may have broken his wrist while sprinting. And with that, he suffered a difficult, but not insurmountable injury. An international...

On the trail of the origin of the pile-dwelling boom

Remains of Neolithic crops suggest links between geographically distant pile-dwelling settlements. © Raul Soteras In the Neolithic Age, the famous settlements on stilts stood...

Large impact crater on Greenland does not appear to be a silent witness of human suffering

Fortunately, the crater was created long before the first humans populated the earth. In 2015, researchers in northwestern Greenland stumbled upon a bizarrely large...

Ancestors of the octopus appear to have had not eight, but ten(!) arms

Researchers have come to that conclusion after examining a ten-armed, 328-million-year-old ancestor of the octopus. It turns out to be a species unknown to...

On the trail of Venus von Willendorf

Researchers have gained insight into the material of the famous Paleolithic statuette through micro-CT scans. Left image © NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher, right...

Europeans mummified their dead much earlier than thought

'mummies' have been found in a Portuguese cemetery, dating from about 8,000 years ago. We knew that the Egyptians mummified their dead. But...

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