IN a bold move to safeguard national food security, the government has grabbed the pest threat by the horns investing billion ...

Single-celled microorganisms that are members of the fungus kingdom, yeast has been around for 100 million years, with 1,500 ...

Historical sources (including the Roman gourmand Apicius and the philosopher Plutarch) describe thrushes as delicacies ...

These bony leftovers were found at a trash pit near the ancient ruins of a fast-food shop in the Roman city of Pollentia on ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that ancient Romans consumed songbirds as everyday street food, challenging long-held ...

The research illuminates part of the Roman diet and challenges historical assumptions about thrush consumption.

Thrushes were not just a luxury food item in ancient Roman times, but consumed as street food, according to a garbage dump in ...

One species that has recently become regular in many neighbourhoods and gardens is the house wren. This species began colonizing the Sunshine Coast in the late ‘90s and only became common in the last ...

A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet ...

Saturday, June 14, offers birding by canoe at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge’s Discovery Marsh. The Bird Alliance of ...

The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC) reports that thrush bones discarded in a Roman cesspit at ...

Commoners in the Roman Empire ­frequently snacked on inexpensive fried songbirds at roadside shops, archaeologists said after analysing an ancient trash pit in Spain.