Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of ...

The pangolin is the only mammal on Earth covered in scales - living, flexible armor built from keratin. When threatened, it curls into a near-impenetrable ball, relying entirely on its biological ...

Can you imagine a place that is teeming with deadly snakes? Well, roughly 33 km off Brazil’s southeastern coast lies an ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

Upregulated expression of transcription factors promoting cone identity in late-stage retinal progenitors drives development of the cone-dominant retina of 13-lined ground squirrels.

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

In “Homage to Catalonia”, his book about the Spanish civil war, George Orwell wrote about turning up in Barcelona and sensing revolution everywhere. Arriving in Minneapolis in mid-January, ten days ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

As recently as 10,000 years ago, giant ground sloths the size of elephants, 20 feet long and weighing in at more than 6,000 pounds, roamed the southern United States and Central and South America.

Support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has surged among Republicans, according to a new poll from The Economist and YouGov. In early January, 15 percent of Republicans were ...