HumansEarliest known bubonic plague strain found in 5000-year-old skull The bacterium behind the Black Death, which wrought devastation in medieval times, has been found in the skull of a man living 5000 years ago in Latvia – it’s the earliest known plague strain News
LifeToxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs Rove beetles have glands in their abdomen that secrete a toxin, and they are made up of just two cell types that evolved together – which may be how other animal organs originated News