When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

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

In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress ...

New calculation of viral spread based on branching process theory suggests that rapid elimination of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Discover the rich biodiversity of Great Nicobar Island, featuring new species of snakes, birds, and remarkable flora and ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

Elon Musk recently shared a touching personal connection to India during a podcast with Nikhil Kamath., Business, Times Now ...

Scientists have discovered a new ant species in Morocco and named it Temnothorax lailae after Laila Ajouaou, the wife of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a civilisation in Argentina that had evaded all detection till now. The early humans lived here thousands of years ago, yet scientists had never seen any signs of them ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...