A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed ...

Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

CARLSBAD Garden club discusses school garden The Carlsbad Garden Club will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 6 and will host Bob ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.