Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend ...

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not ...

Plant structural biology sits at the leading edge of research on how plants adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses, ...

Millipedes defend themselves with hydrogen cyanide, like some plants & insects, but new research shows they evolved this ...