When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

Argentinian researchers have described a Carnian theropod with features previously thought to belong only to much later ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, preserved in amber, shows u ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

Groundbreaking research shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm become more common—not just from random ...