If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer ...

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...

It's not your uncle who tried to deep-fry a turkey in his bathtub. From animals who mistake their own reflections for rivals ...

A long time ago, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, there lived strange, small-statured humans who dwelled among ... also yielded the remains of other animals. The vertebrae, femur and mandible ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival.

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." ...

The well-researched example of co-evolution of dairy farming ... analyses of genetic variation in animals (and plants) that have co-evolved with humans; and mathematical models of gene–culture ...