Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...

Researchers at Vidyasagar University in Midnapore have identified a new plant species in the Ajodhya Hills and have named it ...

Image compiled from various Creative Commons sources. For centuries, researchers have painstakingly worked to fill out the ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

A type of mussel found nearly 10 years ago in Randolph and Montgomery county waters has been determined through long study to be a previously unknown species. In 2016, during a routine mussel survey ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

The fungus is among us in Indiana, even though we may not always pay too much attention to it. But maybe we should— fungus ...

Researchers believe the new species may spend its entire life in the dark zone of their caves where no light reaches, according to a study.

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

A bird study explains why some species fear the new while others adapt quickly. The findings reveal how environment shapes ...