Researchers have recovered what has been found to be the world’s oldest DNA from sediments in Northern Greenland, with the two million-year-old genetic fragments revealing a landscape from a time when the now-barren Arctic landscape was lush with a variety of flora and fauna. Beating the previous record for ancientread more
A study of unrelated individuals that otherwise look very much alike has discovered that the uncanny physical resemblance shared between some individuals runs much deeper than their looks, with many doppelgangers sharing similar behaviors, habits and even matching heights and weights. The study made use of three different facial recognition algorithms toread more
A new analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that some species of ice-age megafauna, including woolly mammoths, wild horses and steppe bison, survived much further into the modern era than previously thought. The recovered genetic material taken from soil samples from Canadian permafrost, indicates that some of these species didn’tread more
Researchers in China claim to have found the remains of DNA in the fossil of a 125 million-year-old dinosaur, preserved in the cartilage of a turkey-sized reptile called Caudipteryx. Following up on the 2020 discovery of what might be preserved DNA in the skull of an infant Hypacrosaurus, the research team turnedread more