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Why some orcas stay local while others roam, yet rarely mingle
Across the world’s oceans, killer whales share the same striking black‑and‑white look yet live radically different lives.
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...
A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments
Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists ...
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Why some orcas stay close to home while others roam — and rarely interact
Learn how differences in diet and behavior split orcas off northern Japan into resident and transient groups — and what their ...
This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.
Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...
A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.
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