Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing them and using their corpses to spread.

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In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

In her Jan. 10 letter, Thea Hood has cherry-picked her quotations from Darwin. Creationists have a habit of doing that. In Chapter 6 of The Origin of the Species he ...