Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

A clone ultimately created through this process will likely resemble the original pet more than a random member of the same ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

Genealogy study claims first conclusive case of sex ‘distortion’ in humans — but not all researchers are convinced.

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

Ancient DNA solved the case.

Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

A new DNA analysis suggests that the genetic legacy of the Mongol Empire is likely more complicated than historians previously assumed ...