Paleontologists in Egypt have unearthed a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, an extinct group of apex predators that ...

Bits of viral genes incorporated into human DNA have been linked to cancer, ALS and schizophrenia. But many of these genes may not be harmful, and could even protect against infectious disease.

Evolution works by conserving traits that carry value for the species, often perceived as “survival of the fittest” or in ...

The extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago helped create an environment where fruits could thrive, leading to the evolution of primates, a new study has found. At such a critical moment in ...

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk of an outbreak of the bird flu in humans is low, although ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that ...

Kill 7 Billion People Monkey refers to a reaction image of a gibbon staring directly at the camera captioned with the command ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Evolution is not true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?” A similar thought might have crossed ...

A new study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...