Evolution

The ultimate goal is to inform efforts to conserve or repair heritage sites

A new technique for identifying tiny fragments of fossilized bone is helping to answer key questions about when, where and how human species interacted with one another

The specimens, which went unstudied for nearly seven decades, show adaptations to high elevation

Cephalopods on the recreational drug behave much like humans do, even touching and hugging their peers

A supervolcano may be brewing underneath Chile, with a cold interior that is upending ideas about triggers of huge eruptions

In the last few decades blue whale calls have been getting lower in pitch—and a rebound in their numbers may be the reason. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

A unique anatomical setup helped some herbivorous dinosaurs crunch through their Cretaceous world

Scientists scramble to analyze data from the eruption of Kilauea, hoping to predict similar events elsewhere

New study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world

Fossils from Alabama revise the reconstruction of an ancient sea turtle

Freak heavy rainstorms in 2015 and 2017 wiped out many dry-adapted microbes in the Atacama Desert, useful info in the search for life off Earth. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Necessity is the mother of invention