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 ...

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

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.

Ice Age Europe Revealed Teeth Fossils That Indicate Population Decline, Climate Change Affected Demography An international ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...