Archaeology

Studies disagree on whether Jurassic haramiyids were true mammals

Climate change is occurring 10 to 100 times faster than in the past and ecosystems will find it hard to adjust

Sir Ian Wilmut proposes an alternative method as a possible means of creating a mammoth--or a hybrid. Such research could lead to major biological discoveries and advances

When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink milk, it set the stage for a continental upheaval

New research shows freshwater organisms fared better than others after the most recent extinction event

The aromatic plants, placed in a burial pit dating to nearly 14,000 years ago, sheds light on some of the rituals used by one of the earliest human cultures living in fixed settlements

Isolated, related snail populations in Ireland and the Pyrenees suggests that humans carried the creatures north by sea. Dina Fine Maron reports

Researchers disagree over the whens and wheres of canine domestication

Archaeological evidence indicates that France's winemaking techniques and grapes originated in Etrusca, part of present-day Italy. Cynthia Graber reports

Around 250 million years ago animals in the seas began to diversify with gusto. Remarkably, the evolution of minute plants known as phytoplankton probably powered that dramatic explosion

Scientists artificially age insects in a bid to learn how their colors evolved

New evidence shows that a controversial fossil may be the oldest human ancestor