Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its ...

Humans exhibit rapid, intense reactions to snakes and spiders, rooted in ancient survival instincts. Specific visual cues ...

Scientists have managed to pinpoint the time dogs began to look significantly different from each other in terms of skull ...

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

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

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

Researchers have uncovered how climate-driven changes in lake levels influence fault activity and magma production in East Africa's Rift Valley. The research reveals a dynamic and interconnected ...

Like wolves that once became dogs, trash pandas appear to be adapting anatomically to life alongside humans, slowly stepping ...

While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new study – based on tracing 50,000 years of canid skull evolution – ...

Today, traces of Neanderthal DNA persist in modern humans, particularly those of European and Asian descent. These genetic ...

While the research suggests a large amount of diversity existed as early as the Stone Age, many of the dogs we keep as pets ...