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 ...

Ancient wetland earthworks in Bolivia reveal sustainable Indigenous land management that continues to inspire modern conservation. In Bolivia’s hidden tectonic lakes, researchers uncovered vast ...

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

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have revealed that ancient bogs in the Southern Hemisphere hold clues to a major shift in Earth's climate ...