A female Eurasian brown bear in a file photo from Slovenia. The image does not show the bear killed in Prespa. Credit: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo source.
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A review of ancient Greek and Roman roses has uncovered evidence that yellow blooms may have grown near Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. Researchers examining preserved rose stems from Oplontis, a Roman site near the city, found one fragment...
Three people were killed and five others injured Thursday when heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rocks falling from a fairy chimney, one of the towering volcanic rock formations shaped by millions of years of erosion, near the...
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have captured their first 4K footage of a rare deep-sea fish with a transparent head, offering an unusually detailed look at the animal nearly 2,000 feet below the surface of the...
Europe's extinct giant crane was probably never a separate species. Scientists examining ancient DNA say the unusually large birds once classified as "Grus primigenia" were members of the common crane species still living in Europe. The finding offers an...
Researchers have discovered at least 50 dinosaur footprints believed to be about 65 million years old in western Mexico. The tracks may belong to three different dinosaur families, including large meat-eating predators, smaller raptor-like dinosaurs, and plant-eating species.
Mexico's National...
Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient amphibian from the Late Triassic period in China that appears to have lived entirely in the ocean. The armored creature, which lived about 237 million years ago, challenges the long-held understanding that...
Rhodes and the rest of the Dodecanese have been placed under a red-code mobilization alert through Thursday, October 29, because of a high risk of flooding, the Municipality of Rhodes announced Monday. The alert covers October 26–29. The municipality...
Archaeologists have discovered approximately 4,000-year-old dog paw prints preserved on a mudbrick at Tavşanlı Höyük, an ancient settlement in present-day Turkey's Kütahya province. The discovery offers a glimpse into everyday life at one of western Anatolia's largest Bronze Age...
A rare albino roe deer in Northern Greece has returned safely to the wild after surviving a severe car accident. The young female animal collided with a vehicle on a provincial road in the Imathia region two weeks ago.
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Santorini, an island globally renowned for its volcanic caldera and unique culinary identity, became the epicenter of a historic environmental and cultural success within the Greek landscape. At the idyllic venue of Santo 1911 in Vlychada, a new chapter...
Ioannina has one of the worst air pollution rankings in Europe, placing 754th out of 761 cities in a new assessment by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Athens and Thessaloniki also rank near the bottom, highlighting the scale of...
In the village of Stagiates in central Greece, residents are protecting a spring that has supplied their community for more than 300 years, resisting the prospect of privatization and demanding restoration of their original water supply. The campaign followed...
Nearly half of the municipalities overseeing Greek towns and cities had no operational planning offices in a 2023 government survey, a new study finds. The gap raises questions about local capacity to manage development as communities face heat and...
An asteroid struck the North Sea about 43 million to 46 million years ago, triggering a tsunami more than 330 feet (100 meters) high. Researchers have found strong evidence confirming the ancient collision, helping settle a scientific debate that...
