A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

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A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting populations and influencing patterns of exchange long before recorded history.

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You have the power to make a real impact on the planet. Generation Hope is an annual programme led in collaboration with young climate and nature leaders from around the world. It’s all about ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

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Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

One of the highlight specimens in our Human Evolution gallery is the fossil skull known as Gibraltar 1. It is the first adult Neanderthal skull ever discovered. Model-maker Jez Gibson-Harris and ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...