A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising alarms.

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

The biggest challenge faced by successive State governments in Kerala has been keeping expenditure down without undermining its pro-social sector fiscal policies.

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...

Benjamin Otto will assume primary responsibility for the Otto Group on 1 March, becoming Chair of both the Foundation Board and the Shareholders’ Council and taking charge of the company’s strategic ...

Sri Lanka’s love for dogs is wholesome and beautiful. But, behind every wagging tail lurks a public health crisis that kills silently, swiftly, and without mercy. Aloka and Manula: Stars with a ...

Review The Wijerama House, which houses the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), is a grand building. When I first wanted to launch The Ceylon Journal in July 2024, I drove past it along Wijerama ...

Each poem is vastly different from the next, with a throwback to when the beat poets ruled, without trying to be ...