The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Learn more about how Paranthropus robustus lived 2 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin to humans.

Each lizard is unique. Some have longer legs, others stronger jaws, and all behave slightly differently. The differences ...

Male Galápagos yellow warblers appear to be shifting their behavior and adjusting their calls in response to the din of ...

The fossilized remains of one of the smallest known human relatives have been unearthed in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

The Galápagos yellow warblers on the more populous island of Santa Cruz also increased the duration of their song when ...

Modern airliners are engineered for two-pilot crews, with redundancy as a cornerstone–dual engines, hydraulics, and human ...

A prehistoric feathered throwback that stands five feet tall, this apex predator easily swallows its younger siblings, and ...