In a new study published in the journal Evolutionary Applications, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Forest ...

A set of bones belonging to sauropods, as long-necked dinosaurs are called, found in the municipality of Ibirá in the state ...

A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got ...

A new species of bacteria of the genus Bartonella has been found in the Amazon National Park in the state of Pará, Brazil, in ...

Astronomers sometimes find conflicting data when trying to answer a question. This is a normal part of the scientific process ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted ...

A newly discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil ...