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Evolution November 22, 2016

Is that a Yeti on a dashcam video in Russia?

Could the dashboard video from a drive down a dark, winding, snowy road in the Russian countryside have turned up proof of the 鈥渕issing link鈥� that Yeti and Bigfoot chasers have been looking for?

Digging History May 2, 2016

What the animal world would look like if humans never existed

If humans never existed, lions, saber鈥搕ooth tigers, 330鈥損ound beavers and house-sized armadillos would be walking around Texas right now. A new study from researchers at Aarhus University demonstrates what the world would look like for mammals if the most destructive super predator of them all 鈥� Homo sapiens 鈥� had never been around.

Digging History May 2, 2016

Prehistoric 鈥楽carface鈥� discovered

Pacino has some pint-sized competition. Researchers have recently unveiled a newly discovered pre-mammal species named Ichibengops munyamadziensis 鈥� 鈥淪carface of the Munyamadzi River.鈥� The dachshund鈥搒ized prehistoric carnivore, which may have been venomous and lived 255 million years ago, earned this moniker from the groove on its upper jaw.

Evolution May 2, 2016

No tusks: Ancient walrus cousin looked more like a sea lion

About 10 million years ago, a distant cousin of the modern walrus snapped at fish as it swam near the shore of what is now modern Japan, a new study finds

Evolution May 2, 2016

Not all African Pygmy groups grow the same way

Not all African people of short stature 鈥� often referred to as Pygmies 鈥� grow alike, a new study finds

Biology May 2, 2016

High temperatures make some lizards change sexes

When some lizards can鈥檛 take the heat, they change sexes. In a recent study published in Nature, researchers in Australia revealed that rising temperatures are causing male Australian Bearded Dragons to change into females when developing in the egg. Not only that, but they make better mothers, laying more eggs than naturally born females.

Evolution May 2, 2016

'Proof' of little-known mass extinction found

A little-known mass extinction may have killed up to about 80 percent of all vertebrates on land about 260 million years ago, researchers say

Digging History May 2, 2016

Mysterious humanlike species may have lived alongside 'Lucy'

A newfound humanlike species may be another contender for the ancestor of the human lineage, researchers say

Evolution May 2, 2016

'Mom of the year?' Mother spider feeds self to babies

The insect world may have found its 鈥楳om of the Year鈥� in the female Stegodyphus lineatus, a desert spider that feeds herself to her young shortly after they鈥檙e hatched. This practice颅, which is known as matriphagy, has been recorded in spiders before, according to Mor Salomon of the Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control in Yehud-Monosson, Israel.

Digging History May 2, 2016

Fossil teeth suggest humans played role in Neanderthal extinction

Ancient teeth from Italy suggest that the arrival of modern humans in Western Europe coincided with the demise of Neanderthals there, researchers said

Evolution May 2, 2016

Weird 'water tongue' lets fish feed on land

A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say