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

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis ...

What is the Tully monster? Learn more about the near-nameless fossil, and why experts still can't agree on its classification ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

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

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

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

Phylogeny articles from across Nature Portfolio A phylogeny is a hypothetical reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms or a set of sequences (nucleotide or amino ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...