ancestors

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have developed an index to estimate how a bird uses its wings for flight or other locomotion by measuring the…

The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the…

Our ancestors initially walked on four legs before they evolved and learned to balance themselves on two legs. The transition, which marked a significant…

Warm-bloodedness is a key mammal trait, but it's been a mystery when our ancestors evolved it. A new study in Nature points to an unlikely source for telling…

The ancestors of some of the largest galaxy clusters have been hiding in plain sight. New work led by Carnegie's Andrew Newman demonstrates a new technique…

For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to…

Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength…

New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of…

This time last year, social media was ablaze with MyHeritage's viral 'Deep Nostalgia' tech, whose AI wizardry animated our old family photos with…

Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a…