Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

A complete Plesiopterys wildi fossil unearthed in southern Germany is offering new insight into the early diversification of ...

Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...