Discover what sets human culture apart from animals, as evolutionary insights challenge old beliefs and reveal our unique ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Instead of cloning the creature, however, scientists attempted to resurrect the quagga via “selective rebreeding” aka ...

A new study from the University of Arizona reveals that color vision in animals evolved around 500 million years ago, much ...

The earliest use of bright colors in animals served as a warning system, a strategy seen in venomous snakes and poison dart frogs.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

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

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our ...

New research reveals how parrots and finches develop their extraordinary colours – and shows that evolution is an ongoing ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...