Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

By giving some fossils a dental exam, we've learned more about how tusks first evolved. And humans aren't the only primate ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...