Echidnas and the semi-aquatic platypus are believed to have evolved from a common ancestor called Kryoryctes cadburyi that ...

Jaguars and leopards are part of the Panthera genus, which also includes lions, tigers and snow leopards. Tigers and snow ...

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed wildcat, but experts and information on the ...

Despite being a multilingual actor and director, Kamal Hassan appears to be ignorant of the history of languages and their ...

The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land.

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...

The earliest record of Tamil is marked by the Sangam literature. Sangam literature flourished in Tamilakam (southern India) between approximately 200 BCE and 300 CE. It's a rich collection of poems, ...

Wild chimpanzees change the meaning of individual calls by combining them in different ways, a behavior that reflects how ...

This article, the first in a series aimed at raising awareness of our shared ancestry and identity, seeks to ignite a ...

Researchers identified a novel genotype (D1.1) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 spreading among wild birds, poultry, ...

Indian Arrival Day commemorates the arrival of our ancestors aboard the Fatel Razack in 1845, the first ship to bring Indian ...

By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaA recent study published in Nature Genetics presents Cobraa, a coalescence-based hidden Markov ...