A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...

Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

With tide their clock, gravity their compass and sunlight their fuel, animalgae is a deal-breaking bond. Having shed major ...

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Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.