A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the ...

Termites became social powerhouses by stripping away genes tied to competition and independence. This genetic shedding locked in monogamy, boosted cooperation, and paved the way for their ...

Termites are among the most successful animals on Earth, forming vast societies that can number in the millions. But how did such complex social ...

The two basic characteristics of the Nephilim, namely that they were children of the so-called Sons of God and that they were fallen ones, are attested to in other versions of the same anciet ...

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...