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 ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...