Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

Man from 100,000 years ago may be earliest victim of stabbing in face - Man likely survived stabbing and healed for a period ...

There are museums, and then there’s the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The difference between the two is roughly ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

When playing the classic game "20 Questions," one may begin with the common opener: "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?" ...

Kevin Bacon's Tremors was a box office flop in 1990, but it found a new life on video, and is currently among Paramount+'s ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

During the Ediacaran period, the critter wriggled around on the ocean floor of what’s now South Australia and preferred to ...

The story of Earth's first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life.

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...