Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor. True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents the ancestor of ...

Tuna, salmon, mackerel. I’ve never looked at my afternoon sushi and wondered if it’s related to humans. So, I asked one of those friends named Thomas Siek. He’s a biological anthropologist at ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, whether you're talking about humans, E. coli, tardigrades, baker's yeast or giant kelp. If you follow any two branches back ...

What do you, your next door neighbour and Eskimos have in common? We are all children of the same ancestor. According to paleontologists, this ancestor once roamed the plains of the Great Rift Valley, ...

From the small ossicones on a giraffe to the gigantic antlers of a male moose -- which can grow as wide as a car -- the headgear of ruminant hooved mammals is extremely diverse, and new research ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

A unique bird, the “Grue Jay”, has been discovered in San Antonio, which is a hybrid of a Blue Jay and a Green Jay, and is ...

Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is ...

Chimps consume a pint of lager’s worth of alcohol every day in fruit, scientists find - Wild chimpanzees in Africa are ...

Pronounced "SITH-your-ism," with a "th" sound as in "smith," it's the word for any whispery rustling sound, though it's ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation. Further ...