Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric Portugal across Eurasia, to the chilly landscapes of ancient Alaska and down into South America.

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

“Genetic evidence alone will never be enough to prove the origin of a language," said Lehti Saag, an ancient DNA researcher at Tartu University in Estonia. For the peoples living in Eurasia ...

It is particularly significant as it is the oldest thorny bamboo fossil found in Eurasia to date ... to the evolutionary ecology of spines in ancient bamboos was limited. The fossil we discovered ...

and history spanning from the jungles of Central America and Southeast Asia to the deserts and grasslands of Eurasia and from the shores of the ancient Mediterranean to those of Scandinavian ...