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What Chimps Could Tell Us About How Humans Started Walking on Two Legs
A new study of chimpanzees suggests that early hominids evolved upright, two-legged walking to carry valuable resources away from competitors
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I have glimpsed the future. And it is teeming with creepy crawly cyborgs
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The Sawfish is a Great Slasher
This ray uses its toothed rostrum not only to detect its next meal, but also to attack and impale its prey
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A new video brings you a dinosaur documentary mash-up set to techno beats
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The Case of the Headless Hadrosaur
After nearly a century, a mystery is solved and a skull has been matched to its skeleton
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What Does E.O. Wilson Mean By a “Social Conquest of the Earth”
Carl Zimmer asks the evolutionary biologist about the theories in his high-profile new book
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The Gray Wolf: The Great Lakes’ Comeback Kid
How do scientists know how many wolves are out there? Listen to how they howl, and then count how many wolves howl back
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New Hominid Species Unearthed in Chinese Caves?
Fossils discovered in China may belong to a new species of hominid or they may be evidence that modern humans were more diverse thousands of years ago
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A film-in-progress imagines a future in which cowboys ride dinosaurs
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Using Space Satellites to Spot Ancient Cities
Computer analysis of satellite imagery has revealed what could be a record number of archaeological sites
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Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses
Created by underground crime syndicates and government agencies, these powerful viruses have done serious damage to computer networks worldwide
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Bizarre Bee-havior in the Battle Against the Giant Hornet
To protect their hive from an invading hornet, Asian honeybees gang up and surround it, forming a “hot defensive bee ball”
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Paleontologists Announce Two Tiny Ceratopsians
A pair of mysterious, tiny dinosaur specimens have turned out to be new species of horned dinosaurs
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You can’t predict what the next major hominid discovery will be, but you can daydream about it
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An astrophysicist and an economist want to fix our clocks and our calendars
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What was life like for Canada’s dinosaurs 70 million years ago? Paleontologist Annie Quinney can tell you
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Is it Too Late for Sustainable Development?
Dennis Meadows thinks so. Forty years after his book The Limits to Growth, he explains why
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Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction
The innovators behind objects like the cellphone or the helicopter took inspiration from works like “Star Trek” and War of the Worlds
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How Well Do We Really Remember A Crime Scene?
A new study shows that our ability to recall details is severely impaired after physical exertion
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Brachiosaurus was once thought to be the ultimate prehistoric titan, but we know surprisingly little about this Jurassic dinosaur
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