New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

The idea that six generations are battling it out in today's workplace makes for compelling headlines, but how much of it is actually true?

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last universal common ancestor.

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.