Climb on board The Beagle and join Charles Darwin for adventures in Galápagos, meet an online vlogging family discovering the downside of social media fame, celebrate the landmark anniversary of ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

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The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling when it’s more of a medical liability today?

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...