A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Early vertebrates such as myllokunmingids were small and lacked effective defence mechanisms compared to the large predators ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

An international team has identified a new amphicyonid species, named Paludocyon moyasolai, from a skull found 30 years ago ...

A new research study has challenged the understanding of what we know about our human relatives, named hobbits.Earlier it was ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago, archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient man about 1 m tall on the Indonesian ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.

The discovery of a new branch on the marsupial family tree suggests that the history of Australia’s unique mammals is more ...

The species of Zhengheornis buyu, the smallest known long-tailed bird, and the skeletal reconstruction image of it Photo: ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

A new Science Advances study suggests the Flores "hobbits" were scavengers, not hunters, reshaping scientists' understanding ...