Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

The recombination between parental chromosomes, a characteristic of sexual reproduction, plays a crucial role in evolution.

An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and ...

The research, published in the National Science Review, details the discovery of Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis, a new species ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...