“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus ...

Biology’s holy grail: ... Taxonomy is also at the core of fields like my own, palaeontology, concerned with the study of ancient worlds and extinct organisms.

David Pearson and Andrew Hamilton, professors of biology at the School of Life Sciences, and Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History defined taxonomy in their paper “Recovery ...

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting‐edge analyses, researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising ...

Resurrection biology scientists work on “zombie viruses” found in ancient ice, including the ancient “pandora” virus from thawing permafrost pictured here. Jean-Michel Claverie/IGS/CNRS-AM ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, whether you're talking about humans, E. coli, tardigrades, baker's yeast or giant kelp. If you follow any two branches ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of ...