Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

For the next few weeks, this column will focus on “Christmas in the Past,” a series of columns that will feature ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past and how the way we currently celebrate ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

Evolutionary biologist Telford explores in this captivating debut history how the diversity of life on Earth came to be. To unravel this complex story, Telford turns to life’s evolutionary tree—the ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Some butterflies can smell others of the same species, allowing them to identify each other in areas where multiple species all look the same, new research finds. A large international team has ...

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A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million ...