These characteristics make bats an interesting animal to study because they may have implications for human health.
New Hampshire researchers get clues from a person who sees the world upside down.
American scientists agree on the evolution of the entire tomato species, from tiny to hairy and awful-tasting to the large and sweet.
A TAU team hypothesized that humans evolved modern traits as an adaptational response to the need to hunt progressively smaller and quicker prey.
The small whale, named for a pharaoh, provided big insights for scientists about the evolution of whales.
The researchers believe that humans maintained a tiny population of only 1,300 adults for at least 100,000 years.
The researchers found primitive cell-like membranes in hydrothermal vents, which may reveal how life began on unhospitable Earth.
This 300,000-year-old skull found in China has traits of both humans and other more distantly-related hominids, implying a new branch on the human evolutionary tree could have lived there.
A new study finds that large group size and mating systems in which males have multiple mates drove the evolution of lower-pitched voices in primates.
Primates, whom humans evolved from, rabbits and hares, dogs and cats were shown to have evolved just before the mass extinction, so they coexisted with dinosaurs.
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