A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social ...

Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

Surprisingly, Pokémon and Godzilla have quite a few things in common. Many Pokémon actually look like the kaiju in Godzilla movies.

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Pregnancy that lasts long enough to support full fetal development is a hallmark evolutionary breakthrough of placental mammals—a group that includes humans. At the center of this is the fetal ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types and communication networks at the interface between mother ...

Why we need complete evolutionary trees The value of timed evolutionary trees containing every species of a given lineage cannot be understated. While such trees are intrinsically compelling, as they ...