“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe though probably not for food. The careful ...

“Inversions in the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation show supergene-­like signs of adaptive evolution and repeated ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg. This was Elephas ...

What are humanity’s fundamental motives, our most important goals? New work points to an interesting consensus among young ...

Over the years, the Siena International Photo Awards has built a remarkable archive through its “Photo of the Day” series, ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

She was part of a famous trio of scientists, along with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, whose pioneering work transformed our ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

Powerful punches. Flesh-tearing teeth. Deadly talons. We explore the best (or is it the worst?) weapons in the natural world.