Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

Celebrate National Oyster Day by learning about the most bizarre oyster specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s ...

Some use their teeth to drill into other shells and slurp out the contents (a seashell with a neat circle punched into it ...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals. By Jack Tamisiea Are you right-handed? Roughly 90 percent of people are. But ...

The dream is wild enough to sound like science fiction: lose a tooth, grow another real one without implants or dentures. A Japanese team has been working toward that possibility by targeting USAG-1, ...

The sight of an orca carrying her dead calf on her back for 17 days captured global attention in 2018. Scientists worldwide watched as Tahlequah pushed her baby through the Pacific waters, seemingly ...

Katherine Kinnison was taking a stroll along the sand in San Clemente when she came across something unexpected. The sight of teeth sticking out of what looked to be the bottom of a jaw stopped her in ...

Ancient grooves on human teeth, once hailed as evidence of tooth-picking, may simply be the result of natural wear, according to a new study of wild primates. The research also revealed that a common ...

Humans are strange creatures. We are unarmored, largely hairless and precariously perched atop two legs. Bizarrely vulnerable and - in an evolutionary sense seemingly malformed - we have nonetheless ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...