Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Researchers Claim To Have Found Bones of the Earliest Domesticated Dog From a Cave A new finding suggests that human and ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Fossils of Oculudentavis found encased in amber in Myanmar in 2020 have confounded scientists from around the world.

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.