The Wolverine, often overshadowed by lions and tigers, is one of the most ferocious and fearless predators on Earth. Despite its small size, this animal takes on wolves, bears, and even deer with ...

Wolverine at the Helsinki Zoo. Image via Uusijani, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The Nile crocodile and Wolverine couldn’t seem more different at first glance. One is an aquatic reptile, a fierce ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular cultural practice. These decorative ornaments that have been dug up in ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern Europe to extract animal teeth for crafting personal ornaments ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown.

The research centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in Latvia (7500–2500 cal. BC), where more than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from graves. While previous studies focused on the symbolic ...

Credit: Illustration: Tom Björklund. The research centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in Latvia (7500–2500 cal. BC), where more than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from graves.