Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

The inhabitants probably hadn’t mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved and maintained flames from a ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Pegah Ghafoori's Fatima has been particularly significant in From Season 4 (on Paramount+ in Canada), also giving us the biggest twist in the season finale.

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...