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Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...
Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...
An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...
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 ...
Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...
Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis ...
A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...
The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...
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 ...