Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

Some researchers examined prehistoric fossils and some tweaked the question a little bit, but everyone came upon the same ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...