Ever felt like you’ve been queuing forever? Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million years and could have had evolutionary advantages.
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Scientists have for the first time found evidence of Neanderthals on the Greek island of Naxos, pushing back human activity in the Aegean by thousands of years, a new study shows.
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Why do birds of a feather stick together, even when it would be better for both if they set one another free? Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday analyzes the costs of cooperation in long-term mating birds to explain the evolutionary origin of post-coital couples.
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Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it.
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A group of researchers have assembled a construction kit for a spiked-fin shark that may have lived 300 million years ago in order to understand how this fish got its jaws around its prey.
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The tooth of an extinct rhino provides a glimpse into life in Eurasia on a different Earth, but the proteins within the tooth also present researchers data from 1.7 million years ago and shed light on evolutionary sequences further back than previously studied.
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In a shattering evolutionary revelation, scientists in China have discovered fossils of an ancient bug and the trails – likely the oldest ever found – stamped onto Earth’s surface more than a half-billion years ago, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Much has been made about the taming of the wild, uninhabitable country by pioneers who are romanticized in literature and history books, but a study released Thursday reveals global transformation from humans thousands of years ago has been underestimated.
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A special enzyme may be directly responsible for significantly slowing down the evolution of life on Earth, according to a new study published Thursday.
Read moreHeat in the ocean, which was nearly boiling 4 billion years ago, may have acted as the force that created the biomolecules needed for life on Earth, scientists said in a study published Wednesday.
Read moreThe thick soup that is Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits provides a brutal lesson in nature and helps explain why today Angelenos have coyote problems instead of large saber-toothed cats in the Hollywood Hills.
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Humans and captive chimps both consume red meat and live fairly sedentary lifestyles, but only the former develops a plaque buildup in their arteries. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday pinpoints a missing gene that may make humans more susceptible to heart disease than our jungle-swinging cousins.
Read moreAt the anniversary of the trial that pitted evolution versus creationism and put a Tennessee town on the map, all the courtroom’s a stage and all the lawyers merely players.
Read moreIn a finding that guarantees a rewrite for science textbooks everywhere, scientists have discovered that contrary to long-standing theory, multi-celled animals developed from something similar to stem cells.
Read moreA deep-sea fish uses a glowing tendril below its mouth and a row of transparent buzz saw teeth to improve its hunting skills, ocean researchers revealed Wednesday.
Read moreResearch published Tuesday raises questions about mankind’s cosmic origins. Not an attempt to credit ancient aliens, but instead an elegant examination of how cosmic rays from dying stars may have set off a chain of terrestrial events to create the conditions for our ancient ancestors to walk upright.
Read moreA recent study takes a deep dive into the history of the humble apple, yielding some remarkable information on one of the world’s most well-known fruits.
Read moreTeeth can weather a lot, even 800 millennia in a cave. A batch of them – along with prehistoric fossils found in a cave system – have led scientists to a stunning new conclusion: Modern humans likely began breaking away from our Neanderthal relatives 800,000 years, much earlier than previously thought.
Read moreIn the dark world of the deep sea, being able to discern prey from predator can mean life or death for fish. Now researchers have learned how certain fish adapt and thrive in this harsh environment: They can see in color.
Read moreThe tiny Gulf killifish has adapted to killer toxins in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas, thanks to a genetic variation and a bit of luck, according to a new study.
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