A creationist conference set for a major research campus—Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing—is creating unease among some of the school’s students and faculty, which includes several prominent evolutionary biologists. The 1 November event, called the Origin Summit, is sponsored

Nearly 50 years after researchers uncovered the gigantic arms of a mysterious dinosaur in the Gobi desert, the true nature of the beast has finally been established. Since its discovery in 1965, the only clues to the engimatic creature were its shoulders and forelimbs – the latter measuring an

An ancient leg bone found by chance on the bank of a Siberian river has helped scientists work out when early humans interbred with our extinct cousins, the Neanderthals. A local ivory carver spotted the bone sticking out of sediments while fossil hunting in 2008 along the Irtysh river near the

Two kinds of large herbivorous dinosaurs that lived side by side had skulls that allowed the creatures to specialize in feeding on different plants. Diplodocusand Camarasaurus were members of the iconic group of enormous, long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods. Around 150 million years ago during

When I watched the first episode of Human Universe, a televisual emission on the BBC presented by the ever-lovely Professor Brian Cox, I held my breath. I am usually allergic to tales of The Ascent of Man, but I thought – and hoped – that we’d outgrown the idea of evolution as a linear narrative