Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

NAIROBI ― A new killifish species, scientifically known as Nothobranchius sylvaticus, has been documented in seasonal swamps ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo antecessors', whose remains date back approximately 860,000 years. It is a key ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indian biologist Zeeshan Mirza has identified more than 60 new-to-science species, including snakes, tarantulas and geckos across India’s ...

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

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

"It is possible that we are dealing with a different species, a new species ... we also discovered in the Sima del Elefante, but in an archaeological layer above it, a human mandible dated at ...

In humans, this triggers a fight or flight ... by the people of Iran,” according to the study. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching ...