This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, Forest Research and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew present new understandings on ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

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 ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

From baby teeth to ‘conveyor belt’ molars, here’s why humans—and other mammals –grow and replace their teeth in such ...