Mothers are seen as the most devout creatures, be it as human beings or animals. The magnitude of a mother’s love and ...

A stunning new discovery suggests sponges, and animals, existed 100 million years earlier than we ever imagined.

Think about the last time you saw a spider scurrying across your floor or a snake slithering through the grass. Your heart ...

Abasi also addresses the ubiquitous amp modeler versus amplifier debate – and why “nothing defeats the experience of plugging ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

Convergent evolution essentially happens when animals and plants have to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...