Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Y ou might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve ...

To maintain a Darwinian perspective on culture we must view humans as passive imitators and transmitters, ignoring cthe ...

There’s a reason why ancient wisdom never truly grows old. Long before science tried to trace the journey of life through ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...