Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

Dave Lovelace, the research scientist at UW-Madison's Geology Museum, and his team of paleontologists discovered North ...

New research shows Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, likely consumed little to no meat, challenging previous ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no ...

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating behaviors among insects and arachnids.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is due before a Senate committee Thursday as lawmakers consider the Republican's ...

The discovery of two ancient fossils shows early mollusks were more complex and diverse than previously thought. Researchers ...

Start-up Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth via gene editing. The company is on track to revive the ...