A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

They didn’t get the message. They won’t bow down. About 2,600 years ago, King Nebuchadnezzar erected a 90-foot-tall image of ...

Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.