This week, see what makes loggerhead sea turtles “dance,” track a cosmic “ghost particle,” uncover an ancient basilica, and ...
One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...
A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable. The team of researchers ...
An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...
Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.
A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.
New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...
Gustav Klimt attended discussions of scientific developments, like the microscope, which he incorporated into his work ...
By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...