Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Convergent evolution essentially happens when animals and plants have to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches ...

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...