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

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 ...

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

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...

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 ...

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

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

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 ...

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 ...