Combining fossil records with techniques in molecular biology helps reconstruct the evolution of organisms and test hypotheses about where they fit on the tree of life. Fossils capture a moment in ...

If applied correctly, however, the molecular clock can yield enlightening date estimates for evolutionary events that would otherwise be difficult to study from the fossil record alone.

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

thus reconstructing putative protein intermediates and providing a glimpse of 'protein fossils'. This commentary describes research at the interface of applied and fundamental molecular evolution ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

We infer evolutionary history from fossils and their living relatives. We combine morphological and molecular evidence, to explain the timing and tempo of major evolutionary transitions. We look at ...

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in question.

Therefore, molecular biology alone can't explain how snow leopards developed their specialized traits. Recently, an international research team identified rare snow leopard fossil records from ...

For living fossils resulting from super slow molecular evolution, like gars, they think strong DNA repair machinery is the ...

but a new field of molecular paleobiology is giving us definitive answers. Watch us slice, dissolve, and shoot a laser at some of the Field Museum's coolest fossils to prove that dinosaurs weren't ...