Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

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Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

A Mediterranean monk seal was spotted calmly wandering along a residential road on Mykonos, far from its natural marine ...

New research published in the journal Nature today (Wednesday 9 th April), shows that hunter-gatherers crossed at least 100km ...

Cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta. Photo credit: Huw GroucuttNew research published in the ...

Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

Malta's history has been pushed back by 1,000 years in a discovery that is rewriting the islands' pre-history, as scientists have found new evidence that shows that ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

When animals have a slow metabolic rate, they do not age but rather have a prolonged life. Resistance to diseases and genetics are also factors that can contribute to the longevity of an animal.