Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

The story of Earth's first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life.

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins — the lineage leading to modern humans — gradually grew larger over millions of years. New research led by the University of Reading complicates ...

Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes — the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus — huddled in oxygenated seafloor ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The BAU is back, baby! And after Criminal Minds: Evolution unmasked The Disciple in Season 18’s eventful finale, Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) headed back to prison to battle ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral ...

We tend to think of reality as made up of things, governed by fixed laws that determine how they change over time. But biochemist Timothy Jackson argues that this is back to front: fundamental reality ...

The ocean covers most of Earth, stretching for thousands of miles and plunging to depths we are still exploring. By comparison, rivers, lakes, and coral reefs seem small and limited. Yet fish ...

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...

With the upcoming arrival of "Pokémon Winds and Waves," fans have reignited debate over how older creatures should evolve: literally and creatively. Someone on Reddit posted a simple suggestion to ...