This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Humans are built for life on land, but what if evolution had taken a different path and sent us back into the ocean? To imagine this, we need to look at some of the ocean’s most incredible creatures ...

Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural ...

This week's featured article is "Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?" by Ronald Bailey. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

There are lots of ways to make a living as a clam, but probably one of the strangest is to be a “living drill bit.” Some species of clams are able to bore into solid rock or concrete—creating a burrow ...

Michael J. McDonald receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Christopher Blake does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...