For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

While somber, their remains and burial goods are helping experts better understand class, gender, and parenting dynamics of late Neolithic society known as the Corded Ware Culture. The discoveries are ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

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

How fluoride integrates into enamel over time The study lead author Jack Grimm, a UW doctoral student in materials science and engineering and a doctoral intern at PNNL, said, “We know that teeth get ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...