Mongooses possess remarkable agility, quick reflexes, and a unique resistance to snake venom, attributed to a genetic ...

The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...

The discovery, made by a team including researchers at the University of Tokyo, is based on microscopic rock fragments ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

Researchers from Switzerland and the United States found that DNA elements active in the cloaca of fish were later recycled during evolution to control digit growth in four-limbed animals ...

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgeries performed today. And it turns out, the ability to reconstruct ...

The ancient Egyptians didn't want tomb robbers to pilfer treasures in the pyramids, so how did they stop thieves?

A new study by the University of Science and Technology of China's (USTC) Archaeo-metallurgy Laboratory reveals a compelling ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...