Ancient proteins identify two fossil fragments from northern China as Denisovan, linking molecular evidence to a substantial fossil collection. Skull, jaw and tooth comparisons reveal a varied ...

A study of 19 Guizhou Petrocodon species supported the genus as monophyletic, identified three geographic clades and proposed variable chloroplast regions as candidate markers.

A cox1 phylogeny and morphometric study of three subterranean Trechus beetles in continental Portugal found weak molecular ...

Insects belong to a broader group of six-legged animals called hexapods. This group also includes other less well-known, ...

An AI model spotted a strange pattern in a virus's DNA that looks a little like CRISPR. Its makers cannot yet say what it ...

A skull fragment that has sat in a drawer at London’s Natural History Museum since 1924 has been identified as a new dinosaur ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

The DNA of modern humans contains traces of interbreeding with extinct archaic humans. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

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Viruses are the most abundant known biological entities in the ocean and play central role in microbial ecology.

The Department of Forests has taken part in the largest study to date combining bat genomes and fossils, published ...

Researchers have used genome-wide DNA data to identify a new insect species on the Ogasawara Islands, a remote Japanese archipelago roughly 900 to ...