The Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most iconic predators in Earth's history, hides distant origins spanning Asia and North America. A recent study traces the journey of its ancestors across ancient ...

At some point, thousands of years ago, F. lybica was domesticated, making it the ancestor of the common house cat (F. catus), which, in evolutionary terms, has become one of the most successful ...

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

Harvard University has agreed to settle a deeply emotional dispute over who has the rights to images of enslaved Africans taken in 1850 by a professor who sought to support a racist theory.

Chinese scientists have traced the origins of the “ghost ancestors” of modern Tibetans to the southwestern province of Yunnan through analysis of ancient DNA. The origins of people living on ...

The Vector-HaSH model reveals how place cells and grid cells help with memory storage, by indexing without erasing previous ...

Evidence of Homo erectus hunting bovine ancestors and extracting bone marrow was also discovered. During the glacial period that chilled the Earth 140,000 years ago, sea levels in the Indonesian ...

Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness.

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

"The most surprising [part of this study] was the overall story that the bathypelagic anglerfish seem to have arisen from a deep sea benthic ancestor," Miller says. "And it was this transition off ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? At a glance, Maba 1 seems like any other skull fragment—and that is the whole ...