Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the ...

Horror movies thrive on body counts, but there is always one who refuses to go down. The character who survives the blood, the mayhem, and the shadow-dwelling monsters is known as the “final girl.” ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

DRAM has been around since 1966, but today it’s still the same basic 1T 1C bit cell architecture. Yet changes are coming as DRAM is called upon to store and retrieve more data faster. Steve Woo, ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons. In 2010, biologists made a shocking discovery. Living in the ...