A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Poison frogs are small and brightly colored amphibians that originate from Central and South America. As suggested by their ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

Dragonflies and humans can see colors similarly, thanks to a common protein in the eye that resulted from parallel evolution.

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long ...

Dragonflies can see deep red light using a mammal-like mechanism, revealing a surprising case of parallel evolution.

Because grandmothers helped out, we, as an entire species, grew to live longer and longer and developed our big brains, tiny ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, have evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid ...