While examining modern and ancient DNA from horses as part of an effort to figure out when the animals were domesticated, a team of genetic scientists realized that the Paleolithic representations of horses at France’s Pech-Merle Cave are realistic representations of what people saw in the wild. “What we found is that there were really […]

Scientists at Austria’s Innsbruck University think Oetzi the Iceman may have died from a fall while mountain climbing. “His death could have been a mountaineering accident rather than him being shot by an arrow as previously thought. The arrow injury could have been an old injury,” said team leader Wolfgang Recheis. The London Court of […]