Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine ~science biology Article 321 words 16 votes
Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world ~humanities.history Article 896 words 9 votes
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are ~science anthropology Article 948 words 5 votes
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved ~science anthropology Article 446 words 12 votes
The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials ~science biology.paleo Article 1441 words 8 votes
Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science ~science biology.paleo Article 5979 words 9 votes
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science ~science biology.paleo Article 5698 words 11 votes
Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia ~science biology.paleo Article 936 words 7 votes
More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America ~science biology.paleo Article 1062 words 12 votes
Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia ~science biology.paleo Link 14 votes
Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century ~science archaeology biology.paleo Article 421 words 2 votes
How a change in climate wiped out the ‘Siberian unicorn’ ~science biology.paleo Article 844 words 3 votes
Seven cookbooks for getting started with a paleo diet ~food cooking recipes diet Article 1696 words 5 votes
Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting (South Korea) ~science biology.paleo Article 5635 words 3 votes
Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal ~science biology.paleo Article 1023 words 8 votes
Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter? ~science anthropology.paleo Link 8 votes