Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...
Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...
The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...
One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...
The study found that bird species who nest in tree cavities have independently evolved heightened aggression across lineages, particularly in females. Scientists have long wondered whether evolution ...