Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

A hippopotamus ivory tusk discovered at the prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya site in the Jordan Valley, located south of the Sea of Galilee. Credit: Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority New research is ...

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Will Tracy and producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' latest masterpiece.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

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