A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

A 307-million-year-old skull from Nova Scotia is overturning a core assumption about when animals first began eating plants.

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Florida's recent freezing temperatures left many palm trees with brown fronds. Here's what you should do and what you shouldn't do right now. Are there some cold-hardy Florida palms? After freezing ...

Researchers Gregory Goldman, Gregory Fournier, and Betul Kacar have identified a rare class of ancient gene families, called ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

It’s a familiar experience: You step outside to find your yard covered with tree limbs and leaves. Washington residents may wonder what happens when it’s not your landscaping that is making a mess, ...

KWONG: Oh. OK, so you found out in your research - by tracing the phylogenetic tree of kissing through primates, you found out that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes who lived 21 ...

Beyond biodiversity conservation, the project is expected to support crop improvement in a changing climate. By mining genes ...

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

Dollar Tree’s 9,000th store opened last year within a few miles of a Louis Vuitton, a steakhouse selling $525 Wagyu beef and Audi, Porsche and Ferrari dealerships, where the average car costs more ...

In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...