An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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Scientists speculate that future evolution could lead to transparent mammals under extreme environmental pressures unlocking ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past.

Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in regenerative medicine by identifying a genetic switch that can restore healing abilities in mammals, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...