Two of the NFL's best defenses will battle for a championship in Super Bowl LX, and they're both guided by first-year leaders ...

In 2018, before directing DC's "Birds of Prey," Cathy Yan made her Sundance and feature debut with the lauded indie comedy ...

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The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

This experimental study used life-sized and screen-based 3D male avatars to test how penis size, height, and body shape ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...