From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Scientists captured first real-time 3D video of human embryo implantation, revealing mechanical forces behind successful ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam.