CETI’s previous scientific findings, aided by artificial intelligence, have already revealed a strikingly intricate system of ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

A mysterious Greek inscription found beneath the Great Mosque of Homs could pinpoint the long-debated location of an ancient ...

In Anyang, the birthplace of jiaguwen found at the Yinxu Ruins, a late capital site of the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century–11th ...

Is wit a sign of evolutionary fitness? A new study explores how "quick-wittedness" and ancient verb-noun compounds shaped the evolution of human grammar through sexual selection. Learn how "killjoys" ...

Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group — including those that transmit malaria — for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of ...