A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

A tiny fish fossil found far inland in Canada reveals new insight into the evolution of catfish, carp, and 2/3 of all ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Now this ancient man – or least, his fossilised skull – is challenging the textbook timeline of human evolution, prompting ...

The cellular biology of reproduction is often depicted as an epic journey, in which millions of intrepid sperm fight to be the first to claim the ultimate prize: the chance to fertilize the egg, which ...

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the ...

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...