A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

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

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

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

Optical frequency combs, characterized by high signal-to-noise ratio and fine time resolution, have made signifi-cant contributions in the field of optical time-frequency transfer towards long ...

Tomás Ángel scored late in second-half stoppage time and MLS Western Conference-leading San Diego FC rallied to defeat FC Dallas 3-2.

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.