Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...
Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...
It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.
Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing ...
A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...
One of the world's leading scholars on bats brings her research and expertise to the public in an illustrated new book.
A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has ...
Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year.
We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these threats are emerging and prepare accordingly.The viruses that cause avian ...
When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...