Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

The Ballad of Songbirds and the Snakescenters around Lucy Gray Baird and Coriolanus Snow as they participate in the 10th ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Give your kids the coolest spot on the block—and memories to last a lifetime—by learning how to build a treehouse ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...