Bad habits run deep in our hominid family.

A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

Louisiana is home to about 48 species and subspecies of snakes, and seven of them are venomous. The vast majority of snakes in the state are nonvenomous, and they play a role in controlling local ...

A new species of Boulenophrys toad was discovered on Mount Hengshan in China, according to a study. Kuang, D.-Y., Wei, Y.-F., Luo, Y.-S., Pei, K.-W., Cao, Y.-Y ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...