Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more than 20 million years ago. The recovered protein sequences allowed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...

Ancient proteins have previously been found in the teeth of some extinct species in the human evolutionary lineage, called hominins. The Turkana region has yielded important hominin fossils.

Ancient Tooth Proteins Rewrite the Rhino Family Tree—Are Dinosaurs Next? Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

While ancient proteins have been found in fossils from the Middle-Late Miocene, - roughly the last 10 million years - obtaining sequences detailed enough for robust reconstructions of evolutionary ...

The more they dig, the more mastodon remains they find in Orange County, New York. The Ice Age mammals went extinct 11,000 years ago.

Archaeologists Found an Ancient Fossil That Doubled as a Sacred Roman Amulet Or a bracelet. Either way, it was meant to protect.

Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to ...