The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

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

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.