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

Trina Moyles’s memoir, “Black Bear,” examines her experiences in wilderness and her contentious relationship with her brother.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A breakthrough experiment from China’s space program has revealed unprecedented insights into the possibilities of mammalian ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Two human rights proposals at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting drew support from more than a quarter of voting shares — far more than any other outside proposals this year. The results, ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

I began thinking about invasive species this past summer when two of them made their first appearances in my yard. No, they were not my in-laws. Like in-laws, though, the Asiatic jumping worms and the ...

Handing peanuts to a squirrel in a city park may seem harmless, but a new study shows that red squirrels in fed parks became pregnant 24 percent more often than forest females. The research team ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. Now, a study published in Science Advances, lends credence to the ...