Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Conifers use resin to protect themselves against pests. This resin contains diterpenes, which are defensive substances. Some of these ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark cave environments, with some lineages dating back over 11 million years.

Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ingredient — elephants.

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...