A fossil sitting in a small museum on the Isle of Wight for years, long assumed to belong to an already-known species, has ...

The Genographic Project began in 2005 and is a research project carried out by the National Geographic Society’s scientific team to reveal patterns of human migration. The project is carried out in ...

Amniotes comprise all fully terrestrial vertebrates and include extant squamates, turtles, crocodiles, birds and mammals. The origin of amniotes, tightly linked to the amniotic egg as a key innovation ...

Paleontologist Matias Motta and colleagues have described a new bird-like raptor, Kank australis, from Late Cretaceous rocks ...

Contributed by Stephen W. Pacala, March 22, 2018 (sent for review February 12, 2014; reviewed by Graham D. Farquhar and Lawren Sack) Leaf traits, such as photosynthetic capacity, nitrogen ...

Animal research is key to many of the great medical advances of today, including cancer treatments; medicines to treat neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis, medicines for diseases that ...