Recent research shows that human evolution followed a braided pattern rather than a simple family tree. Fossils and ancient DNA reveal repeated hybridization between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ...

Feral hogs already cause billions in damage, but two dangerous diseases could make the problem far worse for farms and ...

The lack and loss of memory is the Achilles’ heel of modern civilization and is at the root of our contemporary tribulations ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has designated a slice of Grant County's shrub stepped as a recovery zone for ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each ...

Across continents, a new kind of predator is testing the boundaries between wild and domestic life, and the consequences are ...

Gabrielle Goliath’s legal challenge over the cancellation of Elegy at the Venice Biennale revives an old story: the uneasy, ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

DNA study reveals crocs that lived in the Seychelles represented the westernmost population of saltwater crocodiles, having swam at least 1,800 miles to reach the island.

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...

Wolves have fascinated humans for thousands of years, appearing in ancient legends, fairy tales, and folklore across cultures ...