Some of Europe's most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules ...

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The discovery of DNA preserved in ancient sediments is expanding our understanding of what can constitute a fossil record.

For nearly two centuries, this animal's identity remained hidden in plain sight until modern genetics revealed it as the ...

Age isn't just a number for one of the ocean's top apex predators. It's a mystery University of Georgia researchers are ...

We explain how bdelloid rotifers have imported DNA from other animals and even from plants and survive desiccation.

A study published in ‘Experimental and Applied Entomology’ has explored how spiders could tell what animals are living around ...

Over 60 animal species in three days. That is how many mammals, birds and amphibians researchers found DNA traces from in the air in a Danish forest. The results can pave the way for a new and ...

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Great Blue Turaco in Kibale National Park in Uganda. Bkamprath via Getty Images The world is losing animals at an alarming rate due to habitat degradation, climate change and illegal human activities ...

It is an early autumn morning. Three researchers from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen venture into a Danish forest carrying plastic boxes with DNA air samplers. Wearing latex ...