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Hippopotami that thrive in present-day Africa once called Prehistoric Europe home. Source: Public Domain.
29 OCT 2025 · 3 MIN

When Hippos Thrived In Ice Age Europe Much Longer

Hippos didn’t rush out of Central Europe as the ice advanced. New tests on ancient bones reveal these huge semi-aquatic animals still wandered Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley between about 47,000 and 31,000…
“Napoleon Leaving Moscow” by Pjotr C. Stojanov (circa 1930). Source: CC BY-SA 4.0.
28 OCT 2025 · 3 MIN

DNA from Napoleon’s Doomed Soldiers Reveals Killer Diseases

Scientists probing the bones of Napoleon’s fallen troops have uncovered solid evidence of two brutal pathogens that turned the 1812 Russian retreat into a disaster. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur identified paratyphoid…