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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like pleasure and pain act as a "common currency" for decision-making, as we see in ...

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

The Stranger Things 'Conformity Gate' theory has — as expected — turned out to be nonsense, leaving conspiracy theorists ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

When Sam Darnold threw his second interception Thursday night, there was no reason to believe the Seattle Seahawks could come back. The Los Angeles Rams had clearly been the better team. Darnold was ...

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