#University of Copenhagen

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News Dogs that lived alongside Middle Eastern villagers roughly 11,500 years ago may have helped to transform how those humans hunted, researchers say. Fragmentary canine bones unearthed at Shubayqa 6, an ancient site in northeastern Jordan, date to a time

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama It is believed that dogs started to become domesticated around 14,000 years ago. People found dogs to be useful in all sorts of ways, and soon put them to work. Evidence unearthed in Jordan shows that dogs (that were still close to their wolf ancestors)

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News for Students Something big lurks beneath Greenland’s ice. Using ice-penetrating radar, scientists have discovered a crater larger than the city of Paris. This 31-kilometer- (19.3-mile-) wide pit in northwest Greenland lies buried under as much as

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News A long-dead Scandinavian woman has yielded bacterial DNA showing that she contracted the earliest known case of the plague in humans. DNA extracted from the woman’s teeth comes from a newly identified ancient strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News There’s something big lurking beneath Greenland’s ice. Using airborne ice-penetrating radar, scientists have discovered a 31-kilometer-wide crater — larger than the city of Paris — buried under as much as 930 meters of ice in northwest Greenland.