By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered wooden tools in Yunnan province dating back approximately 300,000 years, shedding ...

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.