The giraffe is a truly puzzling animal. With its exceptional anatomy and suite of evolutionary adaptations, the giraffe is an outstanding case of animal evolution…
The origin of flowering plants famously puzzled Charles Darwin, who described their sudden appearance in the fossil record from relatively recent geological times as an…
Venom expert Dr. Ronald Jenner from the Natural History Museum together with his colleague Dr. Eivind Undheim, who is associated with The University of Oslo…
Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do it. Now, a study published on March 25, 2021, in the journal iScience…
A tiny flatworm found commonly on the coasts of western Europe and North America is living proof that species may be able to evolve and…
Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from plants into their genome. A Chinese research team, publishing today (March…
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla…
New research led by the University of Bristol has revealed that crocodiles once flourished on land and in the oceans as a result of fast…
In the study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the researchers examined the genomes of more than 400 modern humans to investigate the interbreeding events…
The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows. According to…
Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say. Minerals delivered to Earth…
Researchers discover impacts of Ice Age sea level changes in the genomes of Caribbean and Pacific crocodiles in Panama. Crocodiles are resilient animals from a…
The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify climate regions worldwide, yet whether these regions are relevant to other organisms is unknown. Umeå researchers…
Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on scales similar to the mass extinctions triggered by global disasters, a new study shows. Scientists…
Long-accepted theory of vertebrate origin upended by lamprey fossils. A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the…
New genetic comparison technique developed at Stanford enables meticulous study of evolution of the human brain and face. In separate studies, researchers compared gene…
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth. A…
Spectacular fossil plants preserved within a volcanic ash fall in China have shed light on an evolutionary race 300 million years ago, which was eventually…