Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ...

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts ...

A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts ...

"You are what you eat," the old saying goes, and it's an adage that the Kroot are a lot more committed to than most. Among the crowd of iconic Warhammer 40,000 armies—your space marines, orks, ...

A decades-long collaboration is giving Central California’s dwindling coho salmon population a fighting chance.

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and ...