The entire genome of a 4,000 year-old human who was frozen in Greenland has been sequenced.

A new dinosaur species unearthed in China's Gobi Desert strengthens the dinosaur-bird hypothesis and may also provide valuable clues as to how flight evolved.

Bdelloid rotifers protect themselves from fungal infection by completely drying themselves out. This strategy may also be responsible for them giving up sex.

The echolocation abilities of bats and whales, though different in their details, rely on the same changes to the same gene.