In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin unveiled a revolutionary idea. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species crashed through the ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years, but pinpointing when exactly Homo sapiens emerged is even ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Mysterious Footprints Found in a Cave Reveal They Belonged to a Relative of Humans Who Walked Like a Bear We are aware of how ...