Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake ...

New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists ...

The transformation of the human body has been a recurring concern of science fiction for more than 200 years. It has reflected both our hopes of overcoming physical limitations, and our fears about ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us human are thought to hide instead in the DNA that controls when and where ...

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm says bringing extinct species back can contribute to conservation, healthcare and ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

Professor Ojetunji Aboyade in economics and Professor Akin Mabogunje in geography—teamed up to rescue global development from ...

It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence points to at least the middle Jurassic, back when dinosaurs still reigned.

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