Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, had shorter legs and smaller calf muscles and Achilles tendons. She would ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

Karl Bates, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology, convened experts from institutions across the UK and the Netherlands.

Sung by Barenaked Ladies, 'The Big Bang Theory' theme song is an absolute banger but there's a factual inaccuracy you didn't know about ...

A new study suggests that “Lucy,” perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, wasn’t able to run that fast. […] ...

Dec. 30, 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the ...

6, 2025 — Computer models predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the spread of the spongy moth, an invasive species that has ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...

Invasive species are non-native species that have been introduced to an ecosystem and have established there causing ecological damage. The study of invasive species involves questions about the ...

Strontium isotope analysis can be applied to animal and plant tissues to help determine their provenance. Here, the authors generate a strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa using data from 2266 ...

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...