22 January 2021
Ammonites were swimming molluscs in the dinosaur age, and now we have found a fossil of one without its distinctive spiral shell – perhaps because it was attacked by a predator
8 January 2021
The roots of human music may go back to our primate ancestors developing elaborate calls to advertise that they were willing and able to perform death-defying leaps from tree to tree
23 September 2020
Do species really exist? Are genes destiny? Do only the fittest survive? Can we shape or stop evolution? New insights into nature are providing surprising answers, and a glorious new picture of life’s complexity
22 May 2020
There have been five particularly large extinction events in Earth’s history, and for the first time all of them have been linked to global warming
15 November 2019
Stone Age artists loved drawing horses. One possible explanation is that this was because they believed horses were the most important of all the animals
4 February 2019
More than 2000 people died when an earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia last year. A seismic boom may explain why it was unusually devastating
21 January 2019
Spain was seen as the only part of Europe humans struggled to colonise, allowing Neanderthals to cling on for longer – now that's being challenged
21 December 2018
Fossils suggest that a 3.6-million-year-old early human ancestor called "Little Foot" may have died in a violent encounter with a primitive baboon
19 December 2018
Dinosaurs conquered every major landmass, making it difficult to work out where they originally came from – but two studies both conclude they were southerners
29 November 2018
The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
