The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating everything from shifts in the climate to war with modern humans may have ...

Excavation section in the settlement mound of Aşıklı Höyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey). The numerous layers that formed during the millennia of settlement at the site are clearly visible. Modern ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch the flu virus live as it infects human airway cells. They developed a ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why some plants are fragrant powerhouses while others remain subtle. Now, a ...

All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately 80% from one ...

The study "Genomics of post-bottleneck recovery in the northern elephant seal" has been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The research team analyzed nearly 270 northern elephant ...

For more than a decade, invasive Asian honeybees have defied evolutionary expectations and established a thriving population in North Queensland, much to the annoyance of the honey industry and ...

In 1871, a farmer stepped off a volcanic rock in the southern Indian Ocean. For seven months, he had tried to grow crops and ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for biosecurity agencies, it could be a ...