In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have confirmed a 70-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur, Telmatosaurus ...

How New Zealand's first dinosaur was discovered, when the pneumonic plague broke out in India and the story behind Google's logo. Show more Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s ...

A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden indicates that 12 of 38 family members were infected in three separate waves — a potential explanation ...

Until now, it was unclear how virulent the Neolithic plague was within a human population. “There is a hypothesis that the oldest plague bacterium lacked epidemic potential,” said Dr ...