The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

Weird History Food is taking a look at the animals we use for our food. Around 11,000 years ago when humans first began trading nomadic lifestyles for permanent communities, they also began to ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

There are twelve species of true foxes in the world, and they live in a wide range of habitats, on every continent except Antarctica. They vary widely in size and appearance. One of the most striking ...

According to the data considered by its authors—a team from the University of Sussex (UK) and Lund University ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...