Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan. 'Gas station heroin' is technically illegal and widely available.

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

Fundamentalists don't necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must ...

A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social ...