The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

The Miami Seaquarium has finally closed its doors. The tourist attraction gained international attention as the filming ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining. That's ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Related video ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

TEXAS, USA — Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered what may be the first vertebrate hybrid created by climate change, after two bird species expanded their ranges and met in ...

The rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay is likely a result of weather-related shifts in the range of two species. A rare hybrid bird identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and ...

This study presents important insights into the regulation of left-right organ formation. By combining genetic perturbation of all three Meteorin genes in zebrafish and timelapse imaging, the authors ...