This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

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Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

An illegal alien who shot and seriously wounded a 61-year-old civilian and injured four police officers in Omaha previously had a violent record, the Department of Homeland Security revealed.

An illegal immigrant with a criminal history has been arrested following a weekend shooting in which U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot at in Chicago. The shooting happened Saturday in the city's ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...