Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

The ancestors of modern humans and great apes began laughing at least 15 million years ago. This was reported by Popular ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...

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The whales occasionally switched back to an older call pattern, suggesting they retained knowledge of both dialects.

The most unexpected finding was the presence of mycorrhizal fungi, which are known to depend on plant partners. These fungi ...

A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade—why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of about 1.8 times that of Earth? Exoplanets are currently largely grouped into ...

Imagine slipping into a multiplayer VR version of Grand Theft Auto, racing cars against players scattered across the world. You see a red Corvette speeding beside you. You immediately grip the ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...