Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing them and using their corpses to spread.

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In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

In her Jan. 10 letter, Thea Hood has cherry-picked her quotations from Darwin. Creationists have a habit of doing that. In Chapter 6 of The Origin of the Species he ...