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

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

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

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 ...

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

Two years ago, the American Museum of Natural History in New York released a video that vividly illustrates the evolution of ...

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

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to ...

Many climate scientists call our current epoch the “Anthropocene” — the first human-driven climate era. Many technologists ...

The undisputed heavyweight champion of the museum – both figuratively and literally – is the Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive. This mechanical leviathan dominates the space with its sheer mass ...