In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, researchers successfully sequenced DNA from fish remains found in a Roman-era fish-salting vat at a cetaria in northwest Spain. The discovery ...

Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...

Ancient Romans were known for creating delicious sauces, including garum—a famous fish-based condiment. Scientists studying ancient DNA from a Roman-era salting plant in Spain have found that European ...

Fermented fish sauce, or garum, was an incredibly popular condiment throughout the Roman Empire. For the first time, ancient DNA – scraped from vats used to produce the sauce – has revealed exactly ...

Archaeologists have identified the fish used to make ‘garum,’ Rome’s favorite sauce, not by sight but by sequencing ancient DNA from fragmented bones found in a fish-salting vat in northwestern Spain.

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...

Evolution has adapted the digits of mammals for an enormous range of uses, from our opposable thumbs to the spindly digits that support bat wings to the robust bones that support the hoofs of horses.