Animal rock art discovery rewrites human history in the Middle East - Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals ...

While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...

Does "the animal" exist? Toward a theory of social life with animals / Susan J. Pearson and Mary Weismantel -- Touching animals : the search for a deeper understanding of animals / Nigel Rothfels -- ...

A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before ...

While it was already known that human activity changes the environment, Phys.org reported that a recent study, published in the journal Science, has shown the effect of human activity on animal ...

The study of our animal cohabitants often provides valuable insight into the condition of humanity, but animals have also been a gateway to understanding the natural world. The latest volume of Osiris ...

History holds countless moments where animals unexpectedly changed everything, often in ways that still surprise us today. Some of these moments involved unlikely participants whose contributions ...

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found — until now. An archeological breakthrough two decades in the making has ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

New research reveals how ancient pathogens, including plague and leprosy, entered human populations over 37,000 years.