The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a co-author of the study said.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

No longer concerned with adults who remember how the world was before, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland ask what becomes of ...

Dragon Man skull from China confirmed as Denisovan, offering groundbreaking insights into early human evolution and migration ...

Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...