The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

Girls aren't always sugar and spice. Plenty of women have had access to scramasaxes, or poison boxes, or mercenary armies, ...

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...

In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other ...

Weasels are small carnivores with a long body and short legs. They also have a stout skull and sharp teeth. These creatures, ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile has long been the crown jewel of evidence for the early peopling of the Americas, widely accepted as proof that humans arrived long before the ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...