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

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

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

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

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

WASHINGTON - 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 ...

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A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Crocodilians are often called living fossils, with their lineage dating back about 95 million years. They are members of the ...