Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

The ants launched by this spider catapult apparently experience 15 times the G-force felt by fighter jet pilots.

In a rapidly changing climate landscape, the plants we rely on for food, textiles and more face a multitude of challenges, ...

Researchers found over 1,600 primates listed for sale on Facebook, TikTok and more over a six-week period in 2025 A new report from leading wildlife and conservation organizations has revealed a sharp ...