Stoneflies (order Plecoptera) rank among the most ancient lineages of winged insects. Beyond their role as key bioindicators ...

The team pieced together what’s known as a phylogenetic tree showing how different human species may have diverged from one another over the past 1 million years. The analysis suggests that the ...

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could ...

Ascending and descending sloping and vertical branches is critical for arboreal locomotion and likely played a major role in early primate evolution. While most studies have focused on ascent, ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely ...

Stoneflies (order Plecoptera) rank among the most ancient lineages of winged insects. Beyond their role as key bioindicators for evaluating freshwater ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

An international consortium involving Newcastle University has announced a major update to the world's biodiversity hotspots.

The team pieced together what’s known as a phylogenetic tree showing how different human species may have diverged from one another over the past 1 million years. The analysis suggests that the ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

Discover the fascinating origins of Indo-European languages and the ancient Proto-Indo-European tongue that connects them all.