Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Enter the fascinating world of birdbugs an imaginative fusion of avian and insect traits brought to life through speculative ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Doctors and scientists say this year's influenza season could be tougher than usual, with a new version of the flu virus, ...

Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.

A Scots poultry farm - believed to be one of the biggest in Europe - has reported a bird flu outbreak.

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

But some social media users have suggested a noticeable difference in one popular song in particular — "The Twelve Days of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...