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Research at an ancient hunting site in Israel has revealed how prehistoric humans took down huge, extinct cattle that could weigh more than 2,200 pounds.

RESEARCHERS from the Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution of Tarragona and the University of Granada have just announced the discovery of

We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people

Paleontologists from the University of Zaragoza, in Spain, have found a new species of crocodile, which coexisted with the last dinosaurs from the past and laid the thickest eggs ever known.

Pachykrokolithus excavatum lived with the last dinosaurs, and the crocodiles eggshells were found in northeastern Spain.

The skull fragments were discovered at the Abric Romani site near Barcelona where traces of a Neanderthal deer hunters camp were discovered.

A new study suggests ant colonies work like a collective brain to make decisions. How racial discrimination could negatively impact brain structure. A surgical implant that could provide pain relief without drugs. And how a quirk of evolution gave humans our voice.

When ants get together, they make collective decisions a bit like networks of neurons in a brain, according to new research.

Articles by Max Borders

Colonies of ants can act a lot like neural networks, new research has revealed, with groups of the insects weighing up both external inputs and internal principles when making decisions about what to do as a collective.