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 ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

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

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 ...

Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...