The dispersal of anatomically modern Homo sapiens out of Africa and across Eurasia provides a unique opportunity to examine the impacts of genetic selection...
Scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History and elsewhere have sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries...
Application of a novel non-destructive DNA extraction method to a Paleolithic deer tooth pendant from Denisova Cave, Siberia, resulted in the recovery...
Humans have extensively shaped animals and plants through domestication. Although wine and table grapes have been important culturally for thousands of...
The northern and southern populations of a songbird species called the Godlewski’s bunting (Emberiza godlewskii) should be treated as two independent...
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years. However, our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers...
Australian Museum’s Professor Tim Flannery and colleagues argue that the ancestors of Theria (placental and marsupial mammals) evolved in the supercontinent...
Paleoanthropologists have explored the social organization of Neanderthals using ancient nuclear, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA data from the remains...
Biologists have described a new species of the genus Saussurea from the Khunjerab pass border area between China and Pakistan.
Living plants of Saussurea...
New research led by the global research-for-development organization Bioversity International confirms that the genomes of today’s domesticated banana...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized remains of Yuanmoupithecus xiaoyuan, a small Old World monkey species that lived in China during the Late...
Domestic donkeys (Equus asinus) have been important to humans for thousands of years, being the primary source of work and transport for many cultures....
Cornechiniscus mystacinus has catfish-like ‘barbels’ and can be found in the Jalalabat region of Kyrgyzstan.
Cornechiniscus mystacinus. Image credit:...
Researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a Late Pleistocene hominin from Red Deer Cave located in Southwest China, which was previously reported...
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and they remained widespread throughout the latest Ice Age when...
Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite...
The top predator of the Jurassic and Cretaceous landscapes was usually a species of carnivorous dinosaur. These predators walked on two legs, had powerful...
A new genus and species of thyreophoran dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch has been identified from a partial skeleton with cranial and...
Bashanosaurus primitivus is the earliest record of Stegosauria in Asia and represents one of the earliest records of this dinosaur group from anywhere...
Paleontologists have identified two new types of fossil flowers — one identical to those of the living genus Phylica and the other a sister to Phylica...
