People have always been fascinated with animals that used to roam the very territory our modern world is now residing. One of their most appealing features was their size. The creatures of the past were of large-scale which made people wonder how they used to perform the most basic actions. The fascination is today revived […]

A team of scientists from Yale University and the Royal Ontario Museum stumbled upon some tiny intact fossils on an archaeological site in British Columbia. Then, they discovered the fossils belonged to a small ocean predator which lived about 500 million years ago, and terrified its prey with its mouth surrounded by spines. Researchers discovered […]

We have enough knowledge on the ancestors of animals and humans, but the origin of flowers was shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to computer model reconstructions, scientists managed to find out what is the common ancestor of all flowering plants and how it looked like. The plant in question lived 140 million years ago and […]

Tardigrades have been surprising people with their incredible survival skills, but it wasn’t clear how they manage to stay alive in the harshest conditions. This is why researchers have decided to perform a genetic analysis on the creatures, and unveil their mystery. Tardigrades have amazing survival skills, and can resist being deprived of water. Their […]

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology came up with a way to help people climb stairs more easily and save the energy they waste while struggling with the ascent. They designed some assistive stairs which absorb the energy invested by one while moving on them and return it to them, making their effort much smaller. […]

A peculiar species of arthropods living deep in the ocean surprises us with its anatomy. Sea spiders are not regular animals which pump blood through their heart. Instead, they use their guts to circulate the vital fluid through their bodies. Sea spiders do not pump blood through the heart. Instead, their guts work like blood […]

Researchers made an important discovery regarding Neanderthal DNA. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, in southwest Germany, they stumbled upon an ancient human bone which offered them valuable information. After analyzing the bone, they found that, 220,000 years ago, a human species related to our own came into Europe, bred with Neanderthals, and left a permanent mark […]

Many ancient scholars praised the Roman concrete used in harbors, calling it strong and impenetrable. This is proven by the fact that many Roman buildings are still erect to the present day. To understand how this concrete achieved such longevity, researchers started studying it, and published their results in the journal American Mineralogist. Roman concrete […]

A team of German researchers three fragments of carved human skulls at an archaeological site in Anatolia, Turkey. The remnants, dating back 11,000 years ago, during the Neolithic period, might work as evidence for a skull cult which got involved in rituals in the area. Researchers found three carved skull fragments in Anatolia. The carvings […]