Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...

Before Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, they occupied Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before modern ...

A US company, Future Society, is recreating extinct flower scents. They partner with Harvard to extract DNA from preserved ...

A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more ...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...

Our canine companions have lived beside us in all shapes and sizes, but plenty of breeds have disappeared along the way ...

A new study, led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Related: Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA. ] According to the Cleveland Clinic, there are three types ...