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

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Mammal evolution to upright posture followed complex branching path rather than simple step-by-step progression.

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

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 ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have ...

Take a journey back in time to explore the early ancestors of today’s most familiar mammals. From tiny proto-elephants to ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Learn more about how genetic research reveals the Norwegian lemming only split from its Siberian cousin 35,000 years ago.

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it was a messy saga full of unexpected detours. Using new bone-mapping ...

A study used single-cell transcriptomics to analyze maternal–fetal interfaces in six mammalian species. The team discovered ...