A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

Indictments filed in New Mexico part of nationwide operation to combat international gang Robert "Robby" Dodd, a Maryland ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Scientists generally agree that Little Foot belongs to the Australopithecus genus, but disagree on which species. Some say it's a member of the well-known A. africanus, while its discoverers suggested ...

Six researchers at Umeå University have been awarded SEK 38 million in funding from the Wallenberg foundations for humanities and social science research connected to forestry, representing almost ...

The oldest leech ever discovered has turned out to be a shape shifter of expectations, preserving a body plan that looks ...

Sharks of every size, shape and lifestyle apparentlt all follow the same fundamental geometric rule. So, what else in nature ...

For the next few weeks, this column will focus on “Christmas in the Past,” a series of columns that will feature ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past and how the way we currently celebrate ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...