Chemical resistance is another area where human influence is clear. The widespread use of pesticides and antibiotics has ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown human relative from a 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone, reshaping our ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was dangerous? And what if frogs could help you do it?

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life ... genomes of early modern humans and determined that ...

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing ...

Scientists at the University of Oregon uncovered a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus, dating back 480 million ...

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...