New research by the University of Sydney offers important insights into how and when new coronavirus variants arise in bats.

Over 12,000 years, elk petroglyphs in Mongolia evolved from realistic depictions to abstract, wolf-like symbols, reflecting shifts in environment, society, and cultural identity.

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Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

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The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

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