This book is a dual biography of these two duelling biologists. One is one of the most famous people in scientific history, Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. The other has been all but forgotten — ...

Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony ...

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

A 141-year-old tortoise, celebrated as a star attraction at the San Diego Zoo in the United States and born in the 19th century, has died. According to multiple foreign media outlets including *The ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) seized misdeclared agarwood worth P8.41 million in Lapu-Lapu City, as smuggled exports threaten revenue collections in the face of slower growth and corruption probe. In a ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

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

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

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