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

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

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene ...

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, ...

Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex than a worm that is used precisely for its simplicity. For ...

Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years, but pinpointing when exactly Homo sapiens emerged is even ...

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