Two new studies sequencing proteins from ancient animal teeth have pushed back the oldest studied proteins by millions of years—with one of the papers describing proteins from the tooth of an extinct ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey ...

Serrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

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

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Titanoboa is the most massive snake to have ever lived on Earth; or was it? Scientists have recently discovered another huge ...

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

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.