A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

From 2014-2016, a severe El Niño event triggered a drought across Central and South America, leading to unprecedented ...

Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

Mammoth Biosciences researchers have developed NanoCas, an ultracompact CRISPR nuclease, demonstrating its ability to perform ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

For example, out on the African savanna, you may see a pair of giraffes intertwining their necks, sometimes brushing their ...