Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious ...

Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Standing up to 3 metres tall and weighing hundreds of kilograms, Madagascar’s elephant bird was among the largest birds to ...

Chris Packham will present a new five-part series on the BBC called Evolution, which will explore the Earth's pivotal ...

The history of all living things is examined through five key species chosen for the way they move, feed and reproduce and ...

Grey hair isn't random decline — it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here ...

Naturalist, punk, neurodiversity champion, environmental activist, broadcaster and campaigner. How did Chris Packham become ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.