Even after lighter traits emerged in Europe about 14,000 years ago, however, they only appeared sporadically in individuals until relatively recent times — about 3,000 years ago — when they ...

There were an estimated 127,350 measles cases in the Europe region last year. Europe saw the highest number of measles cases last year in more than 25 years, according to a new report published ...

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel may not have grabbed the popular imagination in the same way as the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France did more than 30 years ago, but this structure is just as ...

Even the oldest bits of DNA they studied from 6,000 years ago were well-preserved, with the icy continent acting as a giant freezer to protect genetic material—which suggests scientists should ...

Pale skin became prevalent only around 3,000 years ago. The research suggests that lighter skin may not have offered immediate survival advantages and that early Europeans likely obtained ...

After discovering fossilized facial bones in Spain, researchers now say they’ve found the oldest face of Western Europe. In 2022 ... The fossil date ranges from 1.1 million years to 1.4 million years ...

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The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new “easily readable” New York City subway map for the first time in nearly 50 years — but straphangers knocked the redesigned graphic as a “complicated” ...

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western Europe ... 1.4 to 1.1 million years ago. While experts haven ...

It's akin to holding dish gloves that somebody put over the sink after doing the dishes. Somebody folded that hide up and sat that right on top of this rock. And nobody touched it for 6,000 years." ...

Almost all palaeogenetic work is concentrated in Europe ... 8,900 and 4,800 years ago at Takarkori. Two of the corpses — both belonging to women who lived between 7,000 and 6,000 years ago ...