The Wenjiangduo site (温江多遗址), located on the Tibet Plateau, yielded 18 bovid skeletal specimens dated to the 4–5th century CE. This project addresses a central question in zooarchaeology: do ...

iFiocruz Mato Grosso do Sul, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil ...

Whole-genome phylogenetic tree of S. parasuis S62 and related strains based on 454 single-copy core genes. S. suis NCTC10234 was used as the outgroup. Panels correspond to individual gene phylogenies: ...

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 ...

Bawa et al.’s (1) claim that “almost 50% of flowering plant species with multiseeded fruits have a single pollen parent”—is severely undermined by a critical lack of representativeness in its dataset.

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 ...