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

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Wellness culture is an intoxicating cocktail, blending evolved social preferences for health, fertility and social status ...

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

When roundworms stop reproducing, they can still move and function normally but lose their ability to detect certain food ...

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by ...