The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular holiday destination—had a period long ago when it was an expansive salt flat, entirely dry. The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Messinian Salinity Crisis caused the Mediterranean Sea to be cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporate into an expanse of salt deposits.

Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 9, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117112232.htm ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" some 5.33 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The so-called Zanclean Megaflood ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no meat, according to new research published in the scientific journal ...