Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

It's been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan's Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other ...

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

Woodpeckers endure incredible head impacts without injury, thanks to a unique adaptation. Their extraordinarily long tongue ...

There are plenty of things to critique about the working theory of evolution. For instance, there is the problem of ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee ...

What it tells us about the past: More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusually well-preserved ...

To deepen their investigation into human brain evolution, the researchers are now turning to organoids—miniature human brain models grown in lab dishes. These models allow for a closer look at how ...