A new study published in American Antiquity revealed insights into the history of domestic cats in the Americas, including ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

An international team has unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe and notes that it was ... along with a host of bones from a variety of animals, and also the remnants of a campfire.

The ambient temperature has a profound impact on the physiology and behaviour of most species. In regions where individuals rely on low temperatures to hibernate effectively, global warming is likely ...

If you look at Roman texts and artworks, you’ll see a lot of depictions of gladiators fighting each other or […] ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

The remains of two domestic cats found in the wreckage of a Spanish conquistador ship were likely the first of the pet to ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

The United States has not seen a case of foot-and-mouth disease since 1929, but recent infections in Europe have ignited ... the Hungary-Austria border. The animals that had contracted FMD were ...

For wolves to recover in human-dominated landscapes, humans need to accept a certain level of impact on their lives and some ...

In their usual habitat, fish are a major food, caught in the water after a brief chase. On land, mink will kill prey larger ...

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...