Malta's history has been pushed back by 1,000 years in a discovery that is rewriting the islands' pre-history, as scientists have found new evidence that shows that ...

This week was an exciting one for any people with a love for Malta’s history. It’s rare that we get to see history be changed before our very eyes, but a discovery in Mellieha by a ...

A team of researchers from the University of Malta and the Max Planck Institute, led by archaeologist Eleonor Scerri made a ...

The rare horses, known as Przewalski’s, went extinct in the wild but were successfully reintroduced ... hunted by humans ...

Thanks to modern-day genome sequencing technology, we now know more about Japan's ancient world than ever before — and all ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

The authors present convincing evidence for interbreeding between domestic cattle and wild aurochs since the Neolithic period, although the evidence ... genetic basis of trait variation of ...

As key providers of milk, meat, leather and labor, cattle are one of the most important livestock species worldwide and have been domesticated since the early Neolithic period (Loftus et ... and the ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

This is often cited as the first example of de-extinction. However, the only preserved tissue was from one female animal, meaning it could not have been used to bring back a viable population.