A Puppet Drama About Charles Darwin Is Coming to London's Natural History Museum
The museum has one of the largest Darwin-related collections in the world, including some of the specimens he brought back from his voyage on the HMS Beagle.
The museum has one of the largest Darwin-related collections in the world, including some of the specimens he brought back from his voyage on the HMS Beagle.
All that stood between them and better stone tools was a little hill. And yet.
Perhaps most disturbing of all is the baby head poking out of the sculpture’s marsupial pouch.
The enzyme has the potential to be improved even further.
Humans may have left Africa sooner than we thought.
A theory in science is very different from a theory in everyday conversation.
Have you ever noticed that your fingers and toes get wrinkled when you’ve been soaking in water for a while?
Ninety percent of Little Foot's skeleton has been recovered.
They named it <em>Vaderlimulus tricki</em>.
The discovery sheds new light on the history of the Giraffidae family.
It's the thinnest part of the skull … which is why Maori warriors crafted a special weapon to crush it.
Almost all primates eat fruit, even if it's just a little. A lack of it might be the reason why lemurs exhibit un-primate-like behavior like hibernating.
Take a deep dive into our darkest impulses to find out why humans love watching horror movies, enduring scream-worthy haunted houses, and otherwise getting scared out of our minds.
The better question is, are you sure you really want to know the answer?
It comes down to something called kinderschema.
A new study supports a theory first proposed by Charles Darwin.
The vika is the subject of folk songs and nursery rhymes, but scientists had never found a real specimen before.
Unable to run away, plants have developed some vicious defense mechanisms.
"Selection always comes at a cost, which is death, basically."
Warning: We cropped most of the holes from the honeycomb image, but the story contains a photo of a dried lotus seed pod.
One hundred European starlings released in Central Park in 1890 have turned into 200 million across the U.S. today. Now scientists are looking into their genetic diversity.
According to a recent study, naturally staggered sleep schedules means that someone is always awake and vigilant.
Ninety percent of frogs alive today descend from just three lineages that survived the extinction 66 million years ago.
These 200-ton ocean dwellers had a growth spurt 3 million years ago.