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A study of dog bones across several Iron Age sites in Bulgaria has shown that people ate dog meat. Cut marks on dozens of ...

Zooarchaeologist Stella Nikolova examined dog remains from across Bulgaria’s Iron Age (roughly 5th–1st centuries BC). At Pistiros, she reported that nearly 20% of the examined dog bones had cut marks ...

For the first time, we know more than we ever expected to know about the sex lives of the majestic beluga whale. It's ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...