Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

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

While some other creatures, most notably salamanders and starfish, can regenerate entire limbs, mammals don’t have this ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

A neuroscience professor claims to have developed an AI algorithm that endows humans with “perfect and infinite memory”.

Four astronauts have begun a ten-day mission in which they’ll loop around the moon, laying the groundwork to put humans on ...

It has been very interesting how parrots can mimic human speech. Recently, however, scientists seem to have found something ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...