A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...

By studying them, we’re not just learning about their world; we’re finding ways to make our own world more sustainable," Prof ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The 17th Annual Darwin Day Dinner will take place on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, featuring a presentation on deep-sea biodiversi ...

That's the equivalent of 500 million years of evolution being processed by AI, the research team estimates, and it opens the ...

In the intricate tapestry of nature, few threads are as overlooked—yet vital—as insects. For Professor Michal Segoli of ...

Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

A paper produced in collaboration between the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London and the UK’s Natural ...

Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents details how animal relationships can offer perspective on sexual diversity, social ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...