Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes reptiles, birds and mammals ...

A new species of mammal from the Upper Jurassic, with “bizarre teeth” and which would have walked the earth around 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Torres Vedras.

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet we humans are "the paragon of animals". But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being ...

There are plenty of things to critique about the working theory of evolution. For instance, there is the problem of ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, mammals that once roamed on land began slipping back into the sea. The descendants of those ...

The captivating journey of life on Earth has seen creatures evolve in remarkable ways, including transitions from land to sea ...

To trace tusk evolution, researchers needed a more concrete definition to distinguish tusks from teeth and other external bone growths in fossils. For a tooth to be a tusk, researchers defined the ...