For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Scientists examined the genomes of two bedbug lineages to trace how their population sizes have changed over time ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World ...