A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in Australia has reshaped scientists’ understanding of the Cretaceous predator hierarchy, ...

Arachnid evolution involved multiple land transitions, not just one. Spiders and scorpions evolved key traits through gene duplication.

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Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

A detailed chronology reveals the dark evolution of a fringe group from online theories to alleged violent crimes across ...

A new study suggests intelligence may be a natural outcome of planetary evolution, challenging old theories and raising the ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...