Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their environments, providing insights ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Why don't humans have tails anymore?Author Mark Grabowski Senior Lecturer of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores ...

Nature has a strange sense of drama. Some animals look like they stepped out of a horror movie, yet they are among the most ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Imagination may not be a privilege for humans alone, as research with a language-experienced bonobo in controlled cognitive ...

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

Since publication of their paper, “spandrel” has become shorthand among evolutionary biologists for an incidental trait, or ...