A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Why don't humans have tails anymore?Author Mark Grabowski Senior Lecturer of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

Quick Take Brown tree snakes are invasive in Guam, depressing populations of native wildlife by eating lizards, birds, and ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

Kakapo are flightless, nocturnal parrots shaped by an island history with few mammalian predators. Males use deep booming ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that ...

Evolution sounds like a straight climb toward better survival, but fossil records and genetic research show species sometimes ...