Hot, Humid Weather May Have Helped Shape Human Noses
The nose is part of our body’s climate control system, helping us warm up or shed heat as necessary.
The nose is part of our body’s climate control system, helping us warm up or shed heat as necessary.
A good reminder that not every life form is a fan of oxygen.
The two have more in common than we previously thought.
Short answer: Riding in a car can may make your brain think you’ve been poisoned, and reading makes it worse.
Rocky’s ability to reproduce human-like noises contradicts the idea that apes can only ever use the sounds they’ve always used.
The earliest known ancestor of all living things made its home on a hydrothermal vent, subsisting on hydrogen and metal.
The types of bacteria that colonize our digestive tract may depend more on evolution than the environment around us.
In time, two closely related populations of African Queen butterflies may become entirely different species.
Scientists comparing the genes of five species found that now-isolated habitats must have been joined in the distant past.
It's called convergent evolution. When you have a good idea, you stick with it.
Historical curators restored the room to its original late-1850s appearance.
Study shows the ability to glow has arisen many more times than was previously believed.
Researchers who have sequenced the orca genome say the cetaceans’ DNA tells a tale of culture, socialization, and dispersal through the world’s oceans.
Mutations in and expression of the cortex gene may control coloration in numerous species.
A new study shows that a woman’s pelvis expands during childbearing years, then returns to its previous shape.
And that gene just so happens to be called "sonic hedgehog."
Dr. Simon Park used a cellulose-producing bacterium to make the paper, and "illustrated" it using different-colored organisms.
Scientists at a recent ctenophore conference were astonished to see video of comb jellies pooping through tiny anuses.
The beak’s unique shape lets the birds use tools without blocking their vision.
Scientists say parasitic worms in the guts of Vikings may have made their modern descendants more vulnerable to lung issues.
Parrots and crows are capable of sophisticated mental tasks.
At only 3 inches long and weighing about 60 grams, the uterus isn’t a flashy, attention-grabbing organ. But it is pretty amazing.
The very artificial environment of a fish hatchery causes strong natural selection pressures.
Fossil evidence suggests the evolutionary split between humans and other apes happened 2 million years earlier than previously believed.