Get ready for the first edition of Han and Friends, which is a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lecture series. Approximately once a month, Beijing-based scientist Dr. Hu Han ...

University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication ...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

An ancient ambush of wild horses at a German archaeological site called Schöningen around 300,000 years ago suggests that communal hunting, along with complex ...

A closer look at lion evolution offers hope for saving the big cats. ... Another migration and separation occurred when the ancestors of Asiatic lions split off about 70,000 years ago.

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

A subsequent 2013 study in Nature estimated that the lineage that gave rise to the Neanderthals and the Denisovans split from the ancestors of modern humans between about 550,000 and 765,000 years ...

Evolution news articles delving into and supporting the theory of evolution. ... May 6, 2025 — Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, ...