Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive.

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive.

Potassium–argon dating of the lavas of Rusinga Island, and a re-investigation of the associated sediments, indicate that most of the vertebrate fossils and nearly all of the early hominoids have ...

and its diet would have consisted almost entirely of plant foods, primarily fruit and leaves. Changes from an ape-like anatomy are discernible in hominoid fossils from the late Miocene in Africa.

Additionally, the analysis of fossilized pollen from the area could provide more clues about interactions between bees and plants during the Miocene. The newly identified species, Leioproctus ...