One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

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The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

Scientists unearthed a skull from a fossil-rich area of northern Nevada that reveals striking answers about ocean life — both past and present. The new species is dubbed Cymbospondylus youngorum — a ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...