The blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt related to the sable and the roan antelope. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800, just 34 years after ...

Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind ...

New estimates suggest Australia’s Indigenous population was much larger before European colonization and declined by roughly 93% between 1788 and 1861.

A new study led by archaeologists, ecologists, and paleoclimatologists at Harvard and elsewhere overturns long-held beliefs about the role humans played in shaping the American landscape before and ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s voyage marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the Americas. Over the next century, Spanish expeditions established settlements, claimed territories, ...

In 1492, the discovery of the Americas initiated European colonialism, resulting in the continent's dominance over much of ...

This figure from the paper shows the distribution of wildlife values across 33 countries in Europe and the Americas from 2021-2023. Percent of mutualism-oriented (a) and domination-oriented (b) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Ancient DNA from two people buried in northern Chile is helping answer one of the most painful questions in ...

Although James Cook's 18th century expeditions into the South Pacific Ocean are considered historical feats, Spanish voyages of discovery in this region preceded them. It is well-known that the ...

Humans with Asian origins played a larger role than those from Africa in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, reports a paper published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of ...

The year 2020 was filled with polarizing events — a pandemic, fervent protests from Belarus to Hong Kong to Venezuela, Black Lives Matter, the U.S. elections, conflict in the Central African Republic ...

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native ...