New finding dating back 236 million years are pushing the known existence of butterflies and moths further into the past. A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from several Argentine institutes ...

Litoria tylerantiqua, a 55-million-year-old fossil, is Australia’s oldest known tree frog. It shifts the timeline for frog ...

It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music. Using fish as a reward, he taught her the ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

OpenAi's Sam Altman suggests AI agents may soon make original discoveries. We explore what that really means and how far we ...

Octopuses and squids evolved in rapid bursts, supporting punctuated equilibrium and changing how scientists view evolution’s ...

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Charles Darwin looked forward to Sydney more than any other stop on his voyage around the world. After four years of travel, ...

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...

A stunning 34-million-year-old snake fossil discovery in Wyoming is rewriting the history of evolution.

For generations, the story of human origins has been a complex tapestry, pieced together from fossil records and genetic ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...