Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

It includes verses from the Jewish liturgy, abundant animal imagery, including an elephant, as well as the 12 signs of the zodiac! What does this brief survey of figural synagogue art tell us?

In contrast to the sudden catastrophe of volcanic pyroclastic flows, which instantly buried victims in ancient cities like Pompeii, the Ashfall rhinos suffered a slower, agonizing fate. The ash ...

All pretty familiar, until you look more closely at those animals: ostriches, pangolins, giraffes, saber-toothed cats and hyenas − in Europe! It’s the fossil bones of these ancient animal ...

Fishermen working off the coast of Taiwan long have dredged up the bones of ancient animals — elephants, water buffalo and hyenas — in their nets, relics of an ice age past when sea levels ...

The day/night cycles earlier in organismal evolution used to be shorter than they are today, but the mechanisms used by ancient organisms for their adaptation to such conditions are not ...