Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes?

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

A fossil misidentified for over a century is now reshaping what scientists know about how life first made the leap from sea ...

A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground ...

Fossil tracks from 545 million years ago suggest complex life forms were already crawling around before the Cambrian ...

Extraordinary discovery of bones from early Ice Age period could reshape how we understand and respond to today’s climate ...

A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.