
Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water
We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it
We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it
Researchers in the happiest lab in the world tested 375 pups and found they connected with people by eight weeks
The air was likely frigid as the hunter lit a small fire. The caribou would come in the morning—forced through the narrow strip of marshland where he camped. There was nowhere else to go...
A new experiment shows that bats are born with a fixed reference for the speed of sound—and living in lighter air can throw it off.
Piecing together a paleontological puzzle
Proliferating cichlids may specialize using regulatory DNA
An analysis of the animal’s walking speed suggests that T. rex ’s walking pace was close to that of a human. It’s too bad the king of the dinosaurs didn’t just walk when hungry...
Brain networks for memory and planning may have set us apart from Neandertals—and chimps
It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things
DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents
A paleontologist and an illustrator team up to make mythical creatures follow biomechanical rules
The two cities’ rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows.
Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain forest...
A Caribbean island’s giant rocks were thought to be deposited by enormous waves
New research tries to tease out whether our closest animal relatives can be selfless
Scientists studied three varieties of house mice and found that those who had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food puzzles. Christopher Intagliata reports...
When the sun disappeared, tiny coccoliths turned to hunting
Could they speak, too? Did they proposition modern humans in an interspecies creole language?
The 9,000-year-old settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey shows how humans began putting down roots
Fossils are being found worldwide, and there are plenty more to come
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