Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

What makes some primates thrive while others lag behind? TierZoo ranks the world’s most efficient evolutionary builds, ...

No predator today can catch the American pronghorn, yet it runs as if something still chases it. Scientists trace this ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

UCSB Anthropologist Michael Gurven will present a talk and and signing of his book “Seven Decades: How we Evolved to Live Longer," 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

Melbourne Cup thoroughbreds are considered the best of the best in world racing. But are they really top of the tree in the ...

When Ella al-Shamahi went to college, she thought she'd be able to prove Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong. Instead, she ...

Humans developed large brains and flatter faces at an exceptionally quick rate compared to other apes, according to new research from UCL scientists. The study suggests that these rapid changes may ...

Giraffes are best known for their elegant necks, stretching high over the savannah like periscopes. We have some pretty good ...

In Argentina’s Río Negro region, scientists discovered a 70-million-year-old, remarkably preserved carnivorous dinosaur egg ...

Transgender identification is a “social contagion,” years of data prove, according to an evolutionary biologist and scholar ...