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

Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

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

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.