Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

Killer whales are one of the most intelligent animals; only humans have a larger brain relative to their body size, according ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

Turtles have very low cancer rates, even in large, long-lived species. Their bodies show strong natural cancer defenses.

The plant kingdom isn't doing so well with at least 600 species facing extinction in Sabah alone. These species, which com ...

The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that communicate with each other in vast, interconnected ...