A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

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They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus is a familiar and comforting presence in our daily lives. Unlike ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...

Few human remains this old have usable DNA, and “it’s in a gap where we ... and the researchers argue the care of the burial confirms female babies, and likely male babies, had “personhood ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

Archaeologists recently uncovered the purpose of a 1,500-year-old bucket at Sutton Hoo, revealing that it was used as a cremation vessel for an important Anglo-Saxon figure.

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...