Archaeology

The skeletons of four kittens and two cats in a cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt to 3600 B.C.

The bronze triggers of the disintegrated wooden bows were probably molded and made in small batches rather than by assembly line

Discovered near a graveyard, the wand was likely used in funereal rituals

Ice sheets trapped ancient Americans in refuges on land now under the Bering Strait

The fossil-rich layers date from the period when dinosaurs and birds split from a common ancestor

What with all the monitor-themed goodness around these parts lately (see links below), it seems only fitting that I provide a re-vamped, substantially updated version of this Tet Zoo ver 2 classic (originally published in September 2007).

Genetic evidence supports a theory that ancestors of Native Americans lived for 15,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America until the last ice age ended

A monsoon hiatus that began 4,200 years ago parallels a dry spell that led to the collapse of bronze age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia

In their treatment of the dead, Neandertals were a lot like us

A foreign fungus nearly wiped out North America's once vast chestnut forests. Genetic engineering can revive them

Scientists draw battle lines over metal salvaged from ancient shipwrecks