Scientists Identify Chicken-Sized Dinosaur That Rewrites the Dinosaur Family Tree, Filling a 70-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Chernobyl’s frogs are turning black, not by accident, but by evolution. Their dark skin may hold the key to surviving ...

Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...

Can trees anticipate solar eclipses? Previous research supported the idea, but a new paper argues that it's not possible after all.

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they uncovered an evolutionary mystery.

Duplicated genes that appear in every branch of the tree of life can provide us with insight into the evolution that occurred ...

An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...

And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...