It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Learn why our ancient ancestors maintained their climbing abilities once they developed their walking ones, and discover how their bipedalism evolved (possibly in the trees).

When conditions are just right, organisms can undergo rapid bursts of diversification, and what starts out as one species can end up as an entire ...

In the quest to understand how and why early humans started walking on two legs, scientists are now looking to chimpanzees ...

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

Paleontologists identified a new ancient reptile appendage. And, how fast did dinosaurs run? A longstanding equation for dino ...

Ink authentication is often complicated by tampering, aging, and chemical variability. Now, forensic scientists are turning ...