Two new studies highlight technological advances in large-scale genomics and open windows into the lives of ancient people. New research reveals a major migration to…
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new…
Using a mathematical model, two scientists of the University of Innsbruck and the University of Helsinki were able to determine that in predator-prey dynamics, both…
Radiant and flavorful, lychees were so beloved that they were domesticated not just once in ancient times, but independently in two different regions of China,…
Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins or other molecules. Natural evolution is a…
Researchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth – which also may hint at…
Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong. Message of new Lieberman study: ‘Because we evolved to be active throughout our lives, our bodies need…
Roar supercomputer provides computational power for data-intense gene expression studies. While most people in the U.S. may think of bumble bees as the standard yellow…
A new study, published on December 22, 2021, in the journal Nature, has provided the most detailed timeline of mammal evolution to date. The research…
With a wingspan nearing 40 feet, the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known animal to take to the sky. But known from only a…
A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. A major new study of…
A new fossil skeleton of an extinct species of bird from northeastern China that lived alongside dinosaurs 120 million years ago unexpectedly preserves a bony…
Over the last 100 years, many fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests have been found, but finding one with a well-preserved embryo inside is exceedingly rare….
Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces. Sediments in which archaeological finds are…
A new study has found that a class of toxins found in snake and mammalian venom evolved from the same ancestral gene. A new study…
A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs,…
Viruses reproduce by taking over the replication machinery of host cells to make copies of their own genetic material, or genome. Unlike cellular organisms, whose…
Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal…
