Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

We just returned from two months of adventures from Italy to Tunisia and Egypt. It was exploration into the past from the ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

As climate change bears down on Antarctica, understanding why some penguins end up meandering so far from their natural ...

Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic ...

A new international study provides a shortlist of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2 most likely arose in 2019.

The temporal lobe—a key area of our brain responsible for our memory and communication—could also reveal hidden clues about ...

A newly discovered dolphin species from 22 million years ago shows evidence of early echolocation, akin to modern dolphins' ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...

Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.