BHOPAL: Vatsala, perhaps the oldest elephant on Earth, breathed her last on Tuesday afternoon, following age-related health issues at Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tig ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Scientists have got their hands on the oldest animal proteins yet, extracted from 18-million-year-old fossilized mammal teeth in East Africa, pushing the record back by an astonishing 14 to 15 million ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when ...