Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year's dead plant material ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...