The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the world’s heaviest animal, is being ...

British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct ...

Scientists have for the first time recovered RNA from an extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger, raising hope for the ...

These ancient human cousins, and others called Denisovans ... carried by Neanderthals and Denisovans into mice to investigate its effects on biology, and found it gave them larger heads and an extra ...

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