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The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

Fortunately, then Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio followed the lead and presented 270 ancient maps to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, debunking China’s historical claims. Central ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Who doesn’t love Google Maps? The Maps Android app helps those of us with oatmeal for brains find our way anywhere, without having to fire any neurons or exercise any synapses. It even helps us ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...