Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics.

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A groundbreaking study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology revealed critical new ...

Winter is cold, winter is wind, winter is snow. Winter requires species to evolve, to respond to the snowpack to survive.

If you rang in the new year with a kiss, you took part in a tradition millions of years in the making. Scientists now say the ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, ...