They’re not monkeying around with this breakthrough. Researchers from New York University Langone Health may have finally learned how early humans took a major step away from predecessor primates in ...

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

A new University of Michigan study of dinosaur fossils from India has revealed that the sauropod dinosaur Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis wielded a bony tail club. The research was based on the discovery ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

File shows a robot that uses the kind of motion seen in the mudskipper to move across a granular surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

From iguanas to ancient dinosaurs, discover the surprising ways animals have evolved to use their tails as defense mechanisms against predators.

This is an interview with Dan Goldman, associate professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of ...