Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved "super tusker" elephant named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park and ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

A new study on remains from the Goyet caves in Belgium suggests Neanderthal women and children were targeted, killed, and ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Scientists reveal that the scale of analysis determines whether invasive plants succeed by resembling or differing from ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Diamonds from South Africa’s Voorspoed mine have revealed the ...

Virginia police looking into the death of former U.S. Attorney Jessica Aber say everything they have found points to natural causes. The investigation into the death of Aber, who was the top ...

The inaugural Natural Selection Surf is officially a wrap, with Australians Milla Coco Brown and Soli Bailey emerging as the first-ever champions. An electric two-day showdown in Micronesia’s ...

We explore the effect of (big) shocks on the allocation of (bilateral) aid using natural disasters as natural experiments. We find that aid commitment statistically significantly increases following ...

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning they may be becoming more common, new research hints. When you purchase ...