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Image shows detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia, undated photo. The carvings date back to the Later Stone Age. (Andreas Pastoors, Tracking in Caves/Newsflash)

Namibian Animal Tracking Experts Help German Archaeologists Match Footprint Pictures To Animals

Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
Post published:September 26, 2023

Archaeologists examining prehistoric artwork of footprints up to 50,000 years old in southwest Africa have been able to determine the type of animals and even their likely ages by cooperating…

A brown bear struggles with its head trapped in a plastic drum in Anllares del Sil, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Rescuers used an anesthetic dart, removed the drum and released the animal. (@naturalezacyl/Newsflash)

Patient Wildlife Experts Save Trapped Bruin

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:September 24, 2023

Wildlife experts save a bear with a very sore head. The greedy bruin had got itself trapped trying to eat the corn inside a plastic storage container in Anllares del…

Image shows an illustration of how the Schoeningen area possibly looked about 300,000 years ago, undated photo. It is located in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. (Benoit Clarys/Newsflash)

Ancient Human Footprints Dating Back 300,000 Years Found Next To Prehistoric Elephant Tracks

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:September 8, 2023

Experts have discovered ancient human footprints in Germany dating back 300,000 years right next to sets of tracks left by prehistoric elephants. The footprints, which can be seen in the…

Image shows the bronze artifacts, undated photo. They were discovered in the prehistoric settlement of Motta Vallac, near the village of Salouf, in the canton of Graubuenden, Switzerland, last autumn. (Canton Graubuenden Office for Culture, Archaeological Service/Newsflash)

Scientists Stumble Across Bronze Age Treasures

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:September 5, 2023

A massive haul of Bronze Age treasures has been unearthed by astonished experts who had been looking for remains at a Roman battle site. Archaeologists had been scouring the site…

Image shows (from left to right) Vlad Dumitru, Werner Lienhart and Lisa Strasser from the Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems at TU Graz, Austria, undated photo. They developed a measurement method that uses exciting fibre optic lines to detect landslides earlier. (Lunghammer - TU Graz/Newsflash)

Experts Use Fibre Optic Cable Network To Detect Landslides, Quakes and Fires

Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
Post published:September 2, 2023

Scientists in Austria have developed a way of detecting fires, rockslides and earthquakes by measuring minute changes in the light pulses in fibre optic cable networks caused by shifts in…

Photo shows an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC showing evidence of sewing, indicating that it must have been part of the oldest-known book, undated. The fragment was found in 1902 in the wrapping of a mummy. (Uni Graz,Kernasenko/Newsflash)

World’s Oldest Book Was About The Price Of Beer

Post author:Michael Leidig
Post published:September 1, 2023

A scrap of papyrus left on a museum shelf for a hundred years has been found to be a page from what experts say is the oldest book ever written…

Photo shows illustration of the butterfly Xerces Blue on a plant it used to feed Acmispon glaber. Researchers have found the genome of the butterfly. (Marti Franch-CSIC/Newsflash)

Jurassic Park-Style Revival For Extinct Butterfly, Say Scientists

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:August 25, 2023

Genetics experts have revealed how they could be able to bring an extinct butterfly back from the dead in a Jurassic Park-style revival. Experts at Spain's National Research Council say…

Image shows growth of the Melosira arctica algae, undated photo. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the city of Bremerhaven, Germany, found out that it was heavily contaminated with microplastics. (Alfred Wegener Institut, Julian Gutt/Newsflash)

Microplastics Found In Heavily Contaminated Arctic Ice Algae Threaten Human Food Chains

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:April 30, 2023

Microplastics have been found in algae in ice in the Arctic that experts have described as being "heavily contaminated" and a threat to human food chains. This is according to…

Photo shows a carving of six sculpted figures in a small funerary chapel discovered in Saqqara, Egypt, undated. It dates back to the Ramesside era. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Newsflash)

Elaborate Tomb Unearthed At Egyptian Archaeological Site

Post author:William McGee
Post published:April 23, 2023

Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing tomb and four small shrines dating back to the Ramesside Period 3,000 years ago at an archaeological site in Egypt. The Dutch-Italian team working at…

Image shows some of the 313 manillas excavated by the Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi from a Flemish trader lost in 1524 off Getaria in Basque Country, northern Spain, undated photo. The ship was chartered by Portuguese merchants from Lisbon. (Ana Maria Benito-Dominguez, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)/Newsflash)

Metal Came From German Mines, Study Shows

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:April 16, 2023

Looted bronze treasures returned to Nigeria by Berlin were made from metal tokens minted from brass mined in Germany, scientists have discovered. Thousands of the distinctive bronzes disappeared during colonial…