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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

All about dinosaurs. Read about dinosaur discoveries including gigantic meat-eating dinosaurs, earliest dinosaurs and more. Dinosaur pictures and articles.

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

Paleontology and fossil records. Read about fossil finds over the last 10 years starting with the most recent research. Full text, photos.