In this episode, hosts Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick dive deep into the mysterious origins of all life on Earth—and the ...

Thanks to a study that analyzed fossilized fragments of baby jaws dating back two million years, scientists are rewriting the beginnings of human history. The study, led by José Braga, a professor at ...

Asteriornis likely resembled the last common ancestor of Anseriformes, an order of birds including ducks and geese, and Galliformes, such as chickens and turkeys. “We knew already that these ...

To perform these processes and others, like crawling or exploring, octopuses rely on their complex nervous system, one that ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

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At some point, thousands of years ago, F. lybica was domesticated, making it the ancestor of the common house cat (F. catus), which, in evolutionary terms, has become one of the most successful ...

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The scientific theory proposes that different species or races of humans developed independently from different ancestral origins rather than sharing a common ancestor. Agassiz set out to prove ...

When Kevin Hatala asks his students on the first day of class, “What are the characteristics that make us human?” the first response they tend to give is opposable thumbs. “But if you look ...

Peace says it's one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ancestors of many of the common varieties we eat today, and that the Verona Island tree is the only known living specimen in North ...