Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a valuable dataset comprising 712 ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Over millions of years, dramatic shifts in global temperatures transformed ecosystems and forced early humans to adapt or die ...

All life everywhere is shaped by the subtle touch of evolution, but given our mastery over our environment, has human evolution completely stopped?

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Holiday volunteering strengthens community bonds and purpose, from food banks and senior meal delivery to trail work and ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.

A new study suggests that raccoons living near humans are showing physical changes in line with the earliest stages of ...

Stray dogs in Chernobyl reveal genetic changes after decades of radiation, offering unique clues about how life adapts in ...

The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several ...