Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...

Some species are unisexual and reproduce by parthenogenesis.

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A list of things to give that are secondhand or—if they must be new—emulate the craftsmanship and quality of an earlier time.

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Archaeologists discover an 800-year-old silver-tipped stylus in a German monastery, shedding light on medieval writing and ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, "ginesthoi." ...