Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

Terrorists opened fire at a mosque in North Sinai, Egypt, killing more than 300 people present there for Friday prayers.

William Paley was an 18th–century English clergyman, Christian apologist and philosopher. He is best known for his design ...

Isaac Asimov wasn't hesitant to speak frankly about some of the most popular sci-fi projects of the 1970s, including the ...

The Trump White House is reviving changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from his first term that were blocked under ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...

Canada's Invasive Species Centre held a workshop at Windsor's Ojibway Nature Centre to raise local awareness of the spotted ...

NEW DELHI - A U.N. wildlife trade body decided on Sunday not to restrict India from importing endangered animals, after many ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...