Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

Meet the walking shark, a species of shark that can walk on land, survive low oxygen environments, and reproduce without ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

Sustainable success depends less on geography and more on how talent is onboarded, managed and empowered to contribute ...