The microscopic fragments, found in ice age sediment in northern Greenland, are twice the age of the previous oldest DNA, which was sampled ... that far from its known North and Central America ...

The shark featured in the image is indeed a Greenland shark, a long-lived Arctic species that was the subject of a 2016 study ...

A collaborative study by the University of Oxford and MIT has uncovered a 3.7-billion-year-old magnetic field record from ...

There are a couple of amusingly dismissive references made to “Jurassic Park” during “Hunt for the Oldest DNA,” a ...

This evidence, the academics say, means the Czechia individual is almost certainly older than other contenders with a claim as the earliest human fossil in Europe. The oldest DNA ever found in ...

In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy ... bodies in North America at an abandoned settlement called Qilakitsoq in Greenland. The "Greenland Mummies," who died about 500 years ago, consisted ...

As reported by Gizmodo at the time, about 2,300 probable ballcourts have been identified to-date in modern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. It was the beautiful game of its day; ...

The world's oldest known wild bird may have lost her mate, but she was recently seen courting new suitors. The Laysan albatross, or mōlī, known as Wisdom has been photographed dancing with ...

This gaming die is recognized as the oldest known gaming tool to date. Archaeological evidence traces the existence of similar dice back to as early as 2000 BCE. 13th century era die unearthed in ...

Note also that DNA with a "left-handed" twist, as this has, is a special kind of DNA known as Z-DNA. The DNA molecule is made up of four bases -- adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and ...

The liquid was subsequently tested and determined to have been distilled back in 1833, making it the oldest known scotch in existence. Now, two dozen bottles of it are going under the hammer in a ...