The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

This video from Wired shows every type of eye in the animal kingdom. All kinds of eye facts are covered. For example, the ...

Professor Lars Schmitz spoke with Wired about the wide variety of shapes and forms that animal eyes take and the reasons for ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

The pong pong tree, scientifically classified as Cerbera odollam, belongs to the dogbane family, which is famed for producing toxic substances. Native to Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and ...

Paul Jewett pulled out two manilla folders that had been securely tucked away in a dresser drawer in his room at the Eden ...

The State Department said Tuesday that it had rolled back an undisclosed number of sweeping funding cuts to U.N. World Food ...