Birds that eat snakes: Nature’s unlikely serpent hunters
Scattered across Africa and Asia, serpent eagles are, quite literally, built for this exact job. Species like the…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
When should you treat a fever? Evolution holds the answer
Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution’s Deepest Logic — and Putting It to Use Owen D. Jones W. W.…
Human Impact on Island Biodiversity: New Study Reveals How People Reshaped Species Richness and Extinction Patterns
The paper also argues that many biodiversity patterns observed today – such as species richness, endemism and ecological…
The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life
The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Scientists Just Found a Smiling “Happy-Face” Spider in the Himalayas
Cephalothorax of female holotype of T. himalayana sp. nov. Credit: Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy For more than…
New Theory of Smallest Human: Not a Hunter, but Eater of Lizard Leftovers
Who exactly was Homo floresiensis, the strange miniature hominins that once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores?…
Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives
A deuterostome cambroernid fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota (~554-539mya), plus artist’s reconstruction (scale bar: 2mm). Credit: Gaorong Li…
Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum
Subjects and recordings Audio recordings were collected from four species of non-human primates (four orangutans, two gorillas, three…
Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled
Great apes and human children produce similar patterns of vocalization when laughing.Credit: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP via Getty Tickling a…