Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

In the final days of 2022, a team of experts from the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the province of ...