While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

The Mains exam has six descriptive papers, each of three hours' duration and 100 marks—a key change eliminating optional ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium was riding expansion plans coming into the new decade, buoyed by rising attendance and revenue ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

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