Ichthyosaurs and dolphins are the archetypal examples of convergent evolution in action, in which two completely…
Jumping spider mothers provide milk to their spiderlings far into development, according to a new study that might turn…
A closer examination of a fossil found more than four decades ago has led to the identification of a new species of…
It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this…
One benefit of working at a university with an agricultural school is the availability of meat. That’s especially…
It’s nicknamed the “humongous fungus”—an unusually large fungal growth belonging to a single genetic individual. An…
For nearly 100 years, scientists haven’t been able to agree on the evolutionary origins of a strange, now-extinct…
The conditions under which early lifeforms originated and exploded into the many animal groups we see today is a…
Let’s say there is a hundred dollar bill wedged behind a bookshelf just beyond your reach, and beside the shelf is a…
Scientists from the University of California, Riverside, are claiming to have discovered the oldest known animal…
What do blind cavefish, dinosaurs, and sunburnt humans have in common? A lot more than you may realize, according to a…
A trio of scientists from the U.S. and the UK have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year for using evolution to…
The discovery of a 127-million-year-old fossil in northeastern China is filling an important evolutionary gap between…
An international team of researchers is claiming to have discovered traces of cholesterol on a fossil of Dickinsonia—a…
A leading theory of recent decades is that lemurs colonized Madagascar around 50 million years ago. As they dispersed…
August 2018 rolled in with a bang, literally, as explosions rocked Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday during a speech by…
More than 500 different shark species roam Earth’s oceans: from zippy little cookie-cutter sharks, to the iconic great…
The aye-aye is about as ridiculous looking as a primate can get: beady yellow eyes, bat-like ears, and hands like…
New research shows that the processes involved in hair, fur, and feather growth are remarkably similar to the way…
In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve,”…
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