The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

A new UC study has looked at the evolutionary significance of super genes and their potential role in species survival.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

From disaster zones to extreme environments, there remain areas difficult for even humans to reliably access. This poses a ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

The discovery of a 6-inch (15 cm) fossil of a small bird, 150 million years old, reveals unexpected modern anatomical ...