Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

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

Poison frogs are small and brightly colored amphibians that originate from Central and South America. As suggested by their ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape planet Earth. Among them are cyanobacteria that produced the oxygen in the atmosphere ...

The East Asian Subtropical Westerly Jet (EASWJ) and the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) are two pivotal components of the ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

New findings by Australian and Chinese researchers shed light on how aquatic creatures made the transition to land.

A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...