A long-standing theory that an equatorial belt of warm water fostered life during the earth's Ice Age has been dismissed by a new study. New findings by scientists from Vienna University and the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany, show that the hotspot almost certainly never existed. It has…
One of the world's first 35mm cameras has been snapped up at auction for an amazing EUR 14.4 million. The hammer price set a new record for the most expensive camera ever. The bid - which works out at around GBP 12.3 million - makes the Leica No. 105 camera…
A team of Egyptian-American researchers has discovered yet another kind of meat-eating dinosaur that was one of many that lived in what is now the Sahara desert nearly 100 million years ago. The new discovery of Abelisauridae, which some experts have said could have been up to 11 metres long…
An international team of experts has sequenced the DNA from 16 ancient people and found that a group of Indonesian islands were a melting pot for humans thousands of years ago. The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to…
Experts in the UK have discovered what could well be Europe's biggest carnivorous dinosaur and largest land predator dating back 125 million years on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton say the discovery represents what could prove to be Europe's largest known land predator, which measured…
