A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Photo: Katerina Harvati Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Eddie Van Halen certainly had respect for anyone who could play tasty guitar licks, but he thought that this band was far ...

Europe's brown bears repeatedly reshaped their jaws during the Ice Age, a flexibility that may have helped them outlast cave ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

Fish have been around since the dawn of complex animals. They were the first vertebrates, had the first live births and were the first four-limbed animals to venture onto land. The fossil fish ...

New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

Giant pandas look like the world's most easygoing animals, but the biology keeping them alive is stranger than most people ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in Earth’s beauty might feel jealous of Lewis’s sojourn with plentiful tortoises, iguanas ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...

Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex. After remeasuring dozens of mosasaur specimens ...