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

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect.

A new study reveals that decades of overfishing have altered the evolution of cod in the eastern Baltic Sea. The research, ...

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 ...

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

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can use its onboard imaging system to find its way among the stars,” added Alan ...