A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

“The sand seas that we are used to seeing have not always been the case,” says archaeologist Michael Petraglia, the director of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith ...

A visually stunning series on National Geographic highlights the cooperative strategies penguins use to survive harsh ...

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin.

A recent discovery of a Denisovan jawbone off Taiwan's coast provides new insights into this elusive archaic human lineage, illustrating their wide geographical spread across Eurasia. Despite ...

The specimen was later donated to the National Museum of Natural Science ... However, the identity of the early human species it once belonged to remained unclear at the time.

Radiation and Rapid Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should ...

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National Geographic presents TITANIC: THE DIGITAL RESURRECTION, a groundbreaking 90-minute documentary that offers an unprecedented look at history's most infamous maritime disaster. Using exclusive ...

Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...