Newly recognized patches of undeveloped grassland are accidental time travelers from a distant past, and they offer answers ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research team covered more ground than ...

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

Researchers discovered a prehistoric ecosystem filled with giant marine reptiles, revealing an unparalleled level of food web complexity. Predators that dominated the oceans 130 million years ago were ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.