How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Your fingers’ lengths are just one feature of many that let your hands grasp, press, pull and otherwise interact with the ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Fire has mesmerized us for as long as we’ve known how to control it. It warms us, feeds us, and lights our homes. But ...

It’s not the students’ fault. Ecology and evolution offerings in the biology school curriculum are slim pickings: blink and you miss them among a sea of cells and neurons. The education system has ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.

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Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered new information suggesting a potential connection between Homo ...