Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

A backyard bird in suburban San Antonio turned out to be something extraordinary: the natural offspring of a green jay and a blue jay.

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 ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Unassigned bones from Ethiopia, combined with teeth and jaw finds, show how two ancient hominin species thrived on different ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery wrapped around 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” which was ...