The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Unlike humans, marine mammals have evolved remarkable adaptations that allow them to hold their breath for extended periods, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

William Murphy, PhD, BS, was selected by SEC provosts for the recognition, from among 16 previous achievement award ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has taken a fresh look at data from the brains of humans, chimpanzees, ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.