This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture. ...

Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas, rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse forms of social organization, belief systems, languages, ...