As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

*Please note some sections of this website are not updating accurately and so may be out of date. Apologies.* I’m a researcher in the field of ancient DNA (aDNA) and museum-based genomics, with a ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

The spiders commonly known as false widow spiders belong to the scientific group Steatoda. Because of their general resemblance to the much more notorious black widow spiders (Latrodectus), they can ...

One of the highlight specimens in our Human Evolution gallery is the fossil skull known as Gibraltar 1. It is the first adult Neanderthal skull ever discovered. Model-maker Jez Gibson-Harris and ...

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Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

The Cambrian explosion is one of the most important intervals in the history of life. Now, new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) is revealing that this ...