ANCIENT DNA HAS revolutionized how we understand human evolution, revealing how populations moved and interacted and introducing us to relatives like the Denisovans, a "ghost lineage" that we wouldn't realize existed if it weren't for _...Read More_

"When North and South America joined millions of years ago, mammals from the north fared better in the meetup. Extinctions in the south may be why."

"Whales belong in the ocean, right? That may be true today, but cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) actually descended from four-legged mammals that once lived on land. New research published in Current Biology reports the discovery in _...Read More_