A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

All you need to know heading into “Better Man” is that Williams considers himself a performing monkey. Some screenings ... actors in the scene playing the human members of the band are fully ...

Monkeys have been spotted roaming in unusual places in central Florida recently — and the police are warning residents to stay away. The Orange City Police Department said on social media that ...

ORANGE CITY, Fla. – Residents in one Florida town are on the lookout for monkeys roaming the streets. The Orange City Police Department warned the public on Monday after they received multiple ...

If you see a monkey on the loose in Florida, don't approach it. Don't touch it, don't feed it, don't try to befriend it. There are a lot of "don'ts" if you see a wild monkey here, but there's at ...

Dollo's law, as it came to be known, implies that specialization is largely a one-way street, with organisms accumulating layers of complexity that make backward evolution impossible. While Dollo ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Dollo’s law, as it came to be known, implies that specialization is largely a one-way street, with organisms accumulating layers of complexity that make backward evolution impossible.

We tend to think of evolution as a one-way process: simpler beings gradually advancing to become more sophisticated lifeforms with no room for a backward step. However, as new research has ...

To the contrary, we found that in many types of ferns – one of the oldest groups of plants on Earth – evolution of reproductive strategies has been a two-way street, with plants at times evolving ...