This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Monkeyflowers glow in a rich assortment of colors, from yellow to pink to deep red-orange. But about 5 million years ago, some of them lost their yellow. Botanists now explain what happened ...

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A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate ...