Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

Researchers announced their findings in 2012, but while they knew the bones didn’t belong to the hominin species A. afarensis ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Ancestor modules are the latest chase items in The First Descendant. They are character-specific mods that allow you to have custom stats on them, making your characters even stronger. Using them can ...

The First Descendant’s recent update added Ancestor modules in the game. They are a new type of Transendant mods that allow you to stack multiple effects into one. Using one can help you prevent ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...