Evolution was supposed to be unpredictable. A new study suggests otherwise, at least when it comes to the wings of ...

A newly discovered Himalayan spider mimics Hawaii’s iconic happy-face pattern, revealing remarkable evolutionary parallels in ...

Paleobotany investigates the fossil record of plants to reconstruct the origin, diversification and ecological roles of seed‐bearing lineages through deep time. Seed plants first emerged in the late ...

It’s often said we’ve transcended our biological constraints and stopped evolving, but that’s simply not ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

Like modern crocodiles, this bizarre ancient reptile was likely a carnivore, but otherwise it bears little resemblance to ...

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...

Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa also star in the Oscar-winning Iranian director's drama about voyeurism and imagination, his second French-language feature following 2013’s 'The Past.' By ...

The findings suggest that their famous lateral movement evolved just once. It may have helped the animals rapidly spread and ...