Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

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

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

Three of the mammoth samples yielded ancient RNA fragments, particularly the sample from Yuka. Previously assumed to be a female mammoth, their analysis showed that Yuka had fragments of RNA from ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered new evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...