Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to life in modern laboratories, turning a frozen time capsule into a live ...

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More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas were acidic and rich in iron, and volcanic activity roared across a barren ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and Harvard University reveals that 1.5–18 million-year-old mammalian fossils from Kenya contain proteins in their enamel that ...

The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?