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

The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and ...

After researchers published their findings of two different spider species peacefully cohabiting in a giant colony nestled in ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

The orcas’ coordinated movements and tail slaps suggested they were hunting. Drucker used the zoom lens on her camera to spot ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

Sharks and rays may be vanishing from Malaysian waters – only to resurface on e-commerce platforms, say environmental groups.

Blue Origin's New Glenn booster rocket successfully launched its second-ever trip into space on Thursday to deploy two NASA ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

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

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...