Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

A 2026 study found that Indigenous Peruvian Andean populations have the highest known number of AMY1 gene copies, suggesting ...

It was time to find out, and so I called palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett. Paul is a scientist who has named around 20 ...

Seen from the air, Channel Country resembles a vibrant, vast tapestry, with a network of waterways crisscrossing the land.

Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.

A high-coverage genome extracted from Belgium’s Goyet Cave, combined with genomic data from a late Neanderthal individual ...

A previously unknown species of Colobus monkey, distinguished by a call that sounds more like a croaking frog than a primate, ...

Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international team of ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...