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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

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 ...

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