But the new study also suggests that the ilium underwent a second major change millions of years later, when humans evolved ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

Natural ecosystems are intricate webs where species can interact directly, like predators and prey, or influence one another ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

A new study reveals that the majority of Earth’s species stem from a few evolutionary explosions, where new traits or habitats sparked rapid diversification. From flowers to birds, these bursts ...

Study connects Earth’s first forests to an ocean oxygen rise that unlocked deep-sea habitats and spurred a wave of vertebrate ...

When my 15-year-old niece recently asked whether everything she read in history textbooks about our nation's founding was ...

“Large brains and dexterous hands are considered pivotal in human evolution, together making possible technology, culture and ...

New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain ...

“Our study reveals a new specimen of the ankylosaur Spicomellus afer, which is the oldest known ankylosaur in the fossil ...