The term “Dark Ages” emerged to describe the centuries following the fall of Rome, often seen as a period of decline and chaos. This exploration looks at how the label originated, why historians now ...

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

The Aegean coast of Ayvalık in Turkey is composed of numerous islands and peninsulas today, but the region looked quite different 2.58 million—11,700 years ago during the Pleistocene Ice Age. During ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of ...

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