Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

Conifers, such as pines, spruces, and firs, produce sticky resins that protect the trees from insects and pathogens.

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers say the fossil, Yunxian 2, represents the earliest known member of a lineage ...

Recent advances in high-throughput microbiome profiling have generated expansive data sets that offer unprecedented ...