Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

Learn more about Morganucodon and Brasilodon, the two species that may have given life to the mammals we know today.

Here’s a brief explainer on what’s really going on with baby sleep, why “sleeping through the night” is often a myth, and how ...

COLOMBO – During the Ice Ages, there was a decrease in global sea levels, creating a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India, ...

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia's unique egg-laying mammals – have another ...

Humpback whales have been caught blowing bubble rings at humans in what may be playful or communicative acts. This discovery ...

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is ...