Imagine stepping into a misty, ancient Irish forest, the ground trembling beneath your feet as a colossal shape emerges ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in ... as ...

“You couldn’t get more female than this,” says Nicholas Conard, the Ohio-born archaeologist whose University of Tübingen team found the sculpture at the bottom of a vaulted cave in ...

A watercolour painted by Charlie Rennie Mackintosh of a French village just three years before he died has sold at auction for £150,200. The Design Since 1860 auction by Lyon & Turnbull included ...

the troubled Dutch painter paid three-and-a-half francs a day for a tiny bedroom and two daily meals. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news ...

Moryn, Poland – July 13, 2017: Model of Irish elk. Image by fotokon via Depositphotos. The Appalachian Mountains are a living showcase of nature’s diversity, housing a spectacular range of wildlife.

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Yet, a comparison of elk and moose standing next to one another might not look as stark as expected. The range of elk in North America doesn’t extend into Alaska, which means most interactions between ...

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