Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Learn how a new genomic study reveals that squid and cuttlefish survived a mass extinction in deep-sea refuges before rapidly ...

Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC Those many millions of years have given birds time to evolve into some 11,000 species, and keeping track of all those species—not to mention their evolutionary history ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

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 ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...