Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans.

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early primate ape ancestor, Dryopithecus, and progressing toward modern man, Homo ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...