One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

A shark no larger than a human hand that stalked the ancient sea floor 340 million years ago has been dubbed the “chipmunk ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

Explore the fascinating world of early humans and their shared cultural practices 100,000 years ago in the Levant region.

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

When a gene gets duplicated, it often leads to the recipe being followed too many times, and the resulting “leftovers,” the ...