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Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to life in modern laboratories, turning a frozen time capsule into a live ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

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Sean McMahon has previously received funding from NASA. Just over a year ago, Nasa made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life on Mars. Now, the ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and Harvard University reveals that 1.5–18 million-year-old mammalian fossils from Kenya contain proteins in their enamel that ...

The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...