One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

A cave climate record shows that a long, intensifying drought likely pushed the “hobbit” humans to disappear from Flores.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most ...

The assumption that big spinning machines are needed to keep the lights on could delay the exit of coal. Hence the need to ...

Scientists say microscopic magnetite fossils may have enabled an ancient creature to detect Earth’s magnetic field, offering ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a ...

An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve ...

Australia’s retreat from hosting Cop31 has sparked disappointment and relief in equal measure, the relief being that the ...

Newly described fossils from South America are rewriting the story of giant snakes, revealing that anacondas have been enormous for at least 12 million years and never went through a downsizing phase.