The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs. The largest of these ...

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

New snail species named after "The Lord of the Rings" characters have been found in Brazil. These troglobitic snails, adapted ...

With its remarkable size and age, Pando dwarfs its fellow inhabitants, holding the potential to be not only the oldest living ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Every living organism relies on a genetic blueprint encoded in its DNA, yet the amount of DNA - or genome size - varies ...

Now, a team of researchers from UNSW Sydney has added three of its oldest ancestors to its evolutionary tree. The team discovered three new species of Thylacines in fossils unearthed from the ...

in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about its evolutionary history. By sequencing hundreds of samples from the tree, researchers confirmed that ...