Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

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

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco is helping scientists to answer the evolutionary mystery of how starfish evolved ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Heavy rains in Archer County revealed a rare Eryops megacephalus skull, an ancient amphibian with a mouth full of curved ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Surprisingly, though, cave lions and ancestors of today’s African lions didn’t interbreed, the genetic analysis reveals. That’s odd because most big cats are known to occasionally mate when ...

Evolution takes some weird twists and turns to bring animals to their current forms. While evolution is based on random ...