Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Now researchers are learning that they have also evolved another remarkable genetic adaptation since their ancestors first ...

Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing varying levels of ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11790, United States ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.