Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin changed how people viewed themselves and their place in the universe by setting forth his theory of evolution in his famous work, On the Origin of ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Some animals aren’t just lucky, they’re biological masterpieces of adaptation. These creatures thrive in extreme conditions ...

The Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss fruit flies, puzzles, and LS50.

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

Abstract: Multi-label classification (MLC) is crucial as it allows for a more nuanced and realistic representation of complex real-world scenarios, where instances may belong to multiple categories ...

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards—never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures.

Footage shows a blizzard pummelling the mountainside from October 4 to October 5. As of Sunday, hundreds of the trekkers stranded by the blizzard had been guided to safety by rescuers. Putin’s ...

Jaco Greeff received funding from the National Research Foundation. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and therefore the NRF ...

Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would ...