For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture. ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...