Evolution

A new study finds that many crocodile species can bound and gallop. But alligators can’t

Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed

Explaining the very long steps of Earth’s oxygenation—and perhaps that of other planets, too

Archaeologists have dated the image to at least 43,900 years ago, but their interpretation has met with doubt

A new study casts doubt over the suggestion that alligators use sticks to catch birds

Meandering rivers may hold a vital clue to the earth’s capacity for life

A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear

A genetic condition helps uncover how modern human mugs came to differ from those of Neandertals

Out of 25 living crocodilian species, all but one have been seen to “death roll”

A long-sought fossil could redraw our family tree

A fossil thought to be a young Daspletosaurus turns out to be something else

Ground-penetrating radar can detect tiny density differences that lead to images of ancient footprints impossible to discern by eye.