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Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

Modern day, Mark Wahlberg went viral for his daily schedule that starts promptly at 2:30 a.m. The Rock loves a 4 a.m. workout ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...

This cover highlights the article Slik sculpts the plasma membrane into cytonemes to control cell-cell communication by Basile Rambaud, Mathieu Joseph, David R. Hipfner, Sébastien Carréno and ...

Now, scientists have been able to confirm the identity of the mystery fossil, known as Penghu 1, through analyzing ancient protein fragments contained in teeth still attached to the jaw.

This study reports the reconstruction and characterization of an ancient proto-circadian clock system that could have benefited the adaptation of cyanobacteria to 18 h-long light/dark cycles 0.95 ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

Over the past decades, scientists have gleaned details of the “green Sahara.” Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains, geneticists are figuring out who once lived there.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...