Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

See how trees rose, endured and survived across 500 million years; evolving superpowers and weaponry; and shaping how we grip ...

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...

A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa’s iconic baobabs ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

Images: N. Spassov, D. Youlatos, M. Böhme, R. Bogdanova, L. Hristova, D. Begun The Graecopithecus femur from Azmaka, Bulgaria, (left ...

The Shakira wasp is a parasite of caterpillars, feeding and developing inside them and causing them to bend and twist their abdomens in a distinctive way, which reminded lead author Scott Shaw and ...

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, ...