Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

P ronghorn antelopes are the fastest land animals in North America, clocking speeds of up to 55 miles per hour for a half mile, and 45 miles per hour for longer. Since they mostly run in response to ...

Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

With the TROT robot, researchers can compare evolutionary changes in quadrupeds. The robot is open source and can be ...

Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, the earliest known terrestrial vertebrate that evolved to eat plants. Described from a fossil that ...

Quick Take With sloths, the females are the ones responsible for mating calls. Three-toed sloth mating calls are often ...

The Drakensberger cattle breed has been part of the South African landscape for ages. So-called black indigenous cattle ...

Scientists are rethinking extinction risk as studies reveal how shrinking populations disrupt social connections that many animals depend on.