The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, ...

A microscope exposes surprising living organisms lurking on an everyday toothbrush most people use without a second thought. House fails to override Trump's vetoes of two Republican bills What ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

Apennine brown bears have been living alongside humans in central Italy since at least the era of the Roman Empire. This prolonged proximity to people seems to have affected the isolated creatures’ ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

1 Hubei Business College, School of Art and Communication, Wuhan, China 2 Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Mueang Chonburi, Thailand Introduction: The global trend of population ...