Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

The map doesn’t show the road to breakthrough discoveries, but it can be used to determine which areas of science are most closely connected to one another, as well as which are the most—and ...

The dinosaur family tree, used by paleontologists and dinosaur buffs for the past 130 years, has just been transformed. In the old family tree, there are two major groups of dinosaurs: the bird ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

A new analysis rewrites the dinosaur family tree, ... snapping up meat and plant matter alike. ... Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, ...

Feeling evolution in your guts: Evolutionary biology can benefit from a bit of fecal matter, as it gets the Weird Science treatment this week thanks to the primary component of those samples ...

The first tree connects 64 individuals over seven generations, and is the largest pedigree reconstructed from ancient DNA to date. The second family tree connects 12 individuals over five generations.

However, it also shares some of the characteristics of the Denisovans, who belong on a different branch on the human family tree than Homo Erectus. HLD 6 does not appear to have a chin, just like ...