The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s ...

A fascinating new study suggests that ancient rock art in South Africa may depict a now-extinct species. According to research published in September 2024, the mysterious tusked animal in the artwork ...

Determining the age of cave art is delicate work ... The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine that the ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long-extinct bears and stunning, fragile artworks its ...

genome reconstruction is not the only method scientists could use to resurrect extinct animals. The aurochs, a type of prehistoric cow, is the subject of ancient cave paintings around the globe.

The scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow will use gene editing to modify the DNA of the African ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long-extinct bears and stunning ... more than 1,000 carved ...

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 ...

especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for ...