With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Overharvesting has raised conservation concerns for a widely foraged plant, but researchers say that better genetic insights ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...