Scientists discovered that ancient viral DNA sequences called MER11, once dismissed as genetic junk, actually act as ...

What did long-necked dinosaurs eat—and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed ...

Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...