Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa.

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Learn how gibbons’ rotating wrists and powerful grips let them soar through trees and navigate dense rainforest canopies with ease.

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Woolly mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, not-really-dire wolves – increasingly, genomics has revealed itself as a major potential ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Italy's Mount Etna has erupted again after parts of its southeastern crater collapsed sending plumes of smoke and ash several ...

But the species is extinct from most of its early distribution ranges. The Ganges river dolphin can only live in freshwater and is essentially blind. They hunt by emitting ultrasonic sounds, which ...