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A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

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The native Puerto Rican toad has long been endangered on the island thanks to habitat loss and invasive species. Yet fame, ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling ...

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...

Ohio’s hidden treasures don’t get much more hidden than Tar Hollow State Park, a 604-acre oasis of tranquility nestled in the rolling hills near Laurelville. While everyone’s rushing to Hocking Hills ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Scientists have long wondered how mammals, including humans, evolved to walk with their legs under their bodies instead of ...