The president of the field’s leading professional association was asked about a polarizing topic—and showed that she doesn’t ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Carrie Yeager, environmental health director with Butler County General Health District, holds a fake bat Wednesday, July 8, ...

Squid are among the scholars of the deep. Distributed across all of the world’s oceans, the 375 squid species can navigate mazes, cooperatively hunt, communicate via color change, recognize individual ...

Lovebirds are unusual not just because of their shameless PDA, but because they choose one mate for life. While more than 90 ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

One woman was killed, two other people were injured in recent Florida alligator incidents. Here's what to do if you if one approaches or attacks.

An East Tennessee cattle farm reported the loss of two heifers following a severe infestation of Asian longhorned ticks. The invasive tick species can reproduce without mating, allowing for rapid ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

Gorillas, the largest living primates, inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa with a social complexity that rivals human societies in many ways. Their reproductive behaviors and mating ...