For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Since then, things have come a long way, with the evolution of ski technique warranting the introduction of new materials and ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely wrong.

Scientists have discovered solid proof that ancient humans weren’t as separate as we once thought—they mixed and mingled! By ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution.

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Species can sometimes "re-acquire features similar to those of their ancestors," said the statement, but "doing so through ...

New research uncovers reversal of evolution in island plants. On the younger, volcanic islands of the Galápagos, wild tomato ...