Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

We summarize the salient features of the evolution of the Fox gene family and highlight the diverse contribution of various Fox subfamilies to developmental processes, from organogenesis to speech ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

We describe chromosome homology mapping on which evolutionary trees of the main groups of mammals can be based. Finally, we show how such studies have led to the derivation of ancestral karyotypes ...

Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

The site is already an active farmyard and horse exercise area, so there will be no significant habitat loss. However, the tree officer has raised strong concerns regarding tree protection.

One set of remains the project would dearly like to study are those of Godolphin Arabian. The horse, originally from the Yemen, was one of the founding 28 and it is buried in a country park in the Gog ...

Studies like this get us one step closer to understanding the big evolutionary tree of life on Earth. It’s also a reminder that there’s plenty of unexplored material left in museums.

But the branch of the evolutionary tree that led to modern reptiles, birds and mammals — known as amniotes — developed feet with nails or claws fit for walking on hard ground. “This is the ...