Old Protein in Fossils of Extinct Hippos and Elephants. Over the years, scientists have made incredible progress in extracting ancient DNA from fos ...

Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

Tourists feeding wild elephants may seem innocent or even compassionate, but a new 18-year study reveals it s a recipe for ...

A study led by a scientist at the University of California San Diego offers new warnings on the dangers of human interactions ...

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The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

Welcome to Año Nuevo State Park, California’s best-kept coastal secret hiding in plain sight near Pescadero. The first time I ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

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