A brand new examine in koalas uncovers how virulent retroviruses turn out to be innocent bits of 'junk DNA' over time.

Researchers have used a brand new image-based evaluation approach to establish once-hidden North American mounds, which might reveal useful details about pre-contact Native People.

Bones of a completely new however already extinct genus of gibbon have been found in China, revealing the magnitude of human-caused extinction of primates.

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered new proof preserved in rocks on Mars that means the planet might have supported historic life, in addition to new proof within the Martian ambiance that pertains to the seek for present life on the Pink Planet.

New analysis helps clarify why the construction of some mountains continues to evolve lengthy after the tectonic forces that shaped them stop.

Pioneering new analysis has given an illuminating new perception into the metallic, iridescent colours discovered on the earliest recognized ancestors of moths and butterflies, which inhabited the Earth virtually 200 million years in the past.

The Federalist Society's Georgetown Pupil Chapter introduced its Seventh Annual Lifetime Service Award to Professor Richard A. Epstein on April 1, 2010.His deal with was titled "Pure Regulation in Historical and Trendy Guise".

Fossils that protect total organisms (together with each onerous and delicate physique elements) are essential to our understanding of evolution and historical life on Earth. Nevertheless, these distinctive deposits are extraordinarily uncommon. New analysis means that the mineralogy of the encompassing earth is essential to conserving delicate elements of organisms, ...

A fossilized trackway on public lands in Lake County, Ore., might reveal clues concerning the historical household dynamics of Columbian mammoths. Researchers who excavated a portion of the trail discovered 117 footprints thought to signify numerous adults in addition to juvenile and toddler mammoths.

The fossil, known as Candelarhynchus padillai, is roughly 90 million years previous, and has no trendy family.