When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

The Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossils discovered in the Yixian Formation stood out for their remarkable state of preservation.

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

The tiny, two-toed fossil footprints made by an unidentified dinosaur species some 100 million years ago and preserved in a ...