A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which ...

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.