Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ...

Historically, steppe mammoths were thought to have evolved into the woolly mammoth in Eurasia around 700,000 years ago, and the Columbian mammoth in central and southern North America around 300,000 ...

Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to travel out of Africa.

Disease-resistant frogs, cane-toad-munching quolls and other gene-edited native animals could be roaming the nation within ...

Coyotes that live in the eastern United States are hybrids with both dog and wolf DNA. Here are some more facts about the ...

Humans have caused wild animals to shrink and domestic animals to grow, according to a new study out of the University of Montpellier in southern France. Researchers studied tens of thousands of ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read that in the 1700s, animal blood was transfused into humans to cure syphilis. Is this true? -- T.U. ANSWER: The story is a bit more complicated. Transfusion from animals into ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria. For example, highly automated farming systems are a logical starting point for deploying AI agents to deal with labour shortages. Agents misaligned ...

A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in ...