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 ...

Take a journey back in time to explore the early ancestors of today’s most familiar mammals. From tiny proto-elephants to ...

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

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of ...

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 ...

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from sprawling like lizards to ...

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