Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

Historians once believed human beings created dogs by catching wolf pups and breeding the tamest ones together, but that would have been risky business. Wolves don’t tame easily, and it would have ...

A large fossil study shows young shark and ray species vanish faster, while older species stay stable over time.

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...