A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Instead of relying on the same old recipe biology has followed for a billion years, give or take, stem-cell scientist Jacob ...

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...