Science news articles about 'human settlers'

... dating of rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds reinforces a theory that human settlers did not arrive in New Zealand until 1300 A.D. — about 1,000 years later than some scientists ...

... thought and up to 2,000 years after the first human settlers arrived. As climate in Tasmania was not changing ... megafauna disappeared about 46,000 years ago, soon after humans first settled the continent ...

The controversial idea that space impacts may have wiped out woolly mammoths and early human settlers in North America receives new impetus.

Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging.