A new study confirms that dolphins and orcas have reached a "point of no return" in their evolution, making a return to land ...

A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...