In the race of evolution, innovating is certainly necessary, but recycling existing genes is sometimes more efficient. Indeed, organisms that are very distant from each other can exchange a ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

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A recently analyzed Homo habilis skeleton, dating back over 2 million years, is reshaping our understanding of early human ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

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Scientists have discovered a tropical “dynamite tree” that explosively launches seeds at 150 mph. The mechanism uses physics, ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

An Aussie outdoorsman has faced a dilemma of whether to intervene after witnessing a cruel act of evolution on a tropical ...

Winter weather can have a large impact on how plants, specifically trees, grow. Here's what to know about plant dormancy and ...