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

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

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

Green Mambas and Boomslangs look quite similar. Discover the differences between these two dangerous green snakes.

Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the ...

Late last winter the usual cow moose with two calves showed up in our yard. They ate every part of a flowering crab apple ...

A new species of dinosaur, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a two-legged herbivore from the famous Morrison Formation in the USA, has been officially recognised by science – and from Thursday 26 June is ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Feijó A, Brandão MV (2022) Taxonomy as the first step towards conservation: an appraisal on the taxonomy of medium- and large-sized Neotropical mammals in the 21st century.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

Environment Animals Wildlife This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives Mixodectes pungens lived only a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. By Laura ...

Metagenomic research uses sequencing technologies to investigate the genetic biodiversity of microbiomes presented in various ecosystems or animal tissues. The composition of a microbial community is ...