Archaeologists working at the Lingjing site in Henan, China, have pushed back the earliest known systematic stone-blade ...
In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths ...
A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...
Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread ...
Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their mission: gather snapdragon flowers to understand their genetic makeup.