The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

The world of space remains one of the great unknowns for scientists on Earth. The immensity of what is 'out there' means that any small discovery becomes news. Although in these s ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Similarly, ecosystems of cities are shaped by local cultural practices. Because all wildlife are connected to the environment, cultural practices that alter the landscape shape the evolution of urban ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

When the first reports of a new COVID-19 variant emerge, scientists worldwide scramble to answer a critical question: Will ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...