A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. ―Darwin Compared with other mammals, human beings have large brains and access to types of intelligence that other animals ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

The longer she’s around, the cooler Absolute Wonder Woman’s powers get. The revamped version of the Amazing Amazon has become incredibly popular with fans, largely thanks to her boundless compassion ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...