Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in Niger, challenging old theories about Spinosaurus and ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

Analysis of spine, rib, pelvis and leg remains, including a front leg bone 1.78 meters (5.8 feet) long, suggests it weighed ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

“Platypuses are extremely rare in the fossil record and are often restricted to teeth, so it’s exciting to find new material ...

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

Dr. Louis Lefebvre's new book is a must-read, packed with the latest science and vivid storytelling; you'll learn why being ...