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 ...

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.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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

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

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

A unifying quality of the previous films in the Alien franchise is that they all focus on a “final girl,” a common hallmark of horror cinema. While Wendy might technically qualify for this description ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

This video breaks down the difference between convergent and divergent evolution and explains how shared traits can arise in very different ways. Convergent evolution shows how unrelated species can ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...