The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Evolution has given humans countless unique features, but one body part stands out as an unsolved puzzle: the human chin.

Beginning on Oct. 30, 2025, an interesting display took up residence in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom Lounge: the Native Trees of the Genesee Valley Exhibit .

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

Researchers have newly described three extremely rare species of toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets.

As the world tuned in to her memorial service, streamed live by the Jane Goodall Institute, we not only remembered Jane—we ...

The Conversation/Renaud Joannes-Boyau et al. When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published in ...

The story begins in China, almost a million years ago, when a human-like skull, now called Yunxian 2, became buried in river soil. When scientists first uncovered it, some decades ago, excitement ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

Back in 2003 a team of archaeologists excavated some skeletal remains on the island of Flores in Indonesia within the Liang Bua cave. Little did they know that their discovery would be the start of ...