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.

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

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

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

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

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 ...