Video 'Expedition Inkanamongo' - In search of the source of zoonoses in DR Congo

Researchers from the Institute of Natural Sciences and the University of Oxford have found the oldest evidence of livestock whose horns were deliberately deformed. The ancient Egyptians forced the corkscrew-shaped horns of sheep, which naturally grow sideways, to stand upright.

Cut marks on bird bones from the Scladina cave, near Namur, indicate that Neanderthals ate various bird species and made tools from some of the bones. Scladina is only the second site to show that our distant cousins worked a bird bone into a tool.