A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night ...

About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave ...

There have been many NFL GMs and coaches who have beaten their own chests over the Horatio Alger players, how they ...

Scientists have discovered that modern potatoes evolved from a natural hybridization between ancient tomato and potato-like ...

A century-old fossil once thought to be a worm is now rewriting the story of arthropod evolution as the first-known nonmarine ...

Researchers have reexamined the skull musculature of coelacanths, a lineage of fish dating back 400 million years, and discovered that many anatomical structures had been previously misidentified. The ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

Ship of Theseus' filmmaker Anand Gandhi and 'Shasn' game designer Zain Memon discuss their ambitious 'Maya' transmedia universe and 15-year plan.

Ape behavior just got a name upgrade — “scrumping” — and it might help explain why humans can handle alcohol so well.

Cornell University faces a federal complaint from scientist Colin Wright, who claimed he was excluded from hiring due to race ...