Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

The find, led by Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Tech, suggests that the earliest sponges lacked mineral skeletons, which may explain why older fossils have remained elusive. Sponges are considered among the ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

Researchers created the virtual animals and released them into a synthetic world, giving them tasks on how to navigate, avoid obstacles and find food.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

The Western airlifter market is set for change as manufacturers finalize product upgrade plans and customers make choices about their fleet evolution. Near-term decisions at Airbus and Embraer could ...