This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

But we know for certain that this back-to-the-water evolution ... these animals is necessarily a direct ancestor of the whales we know today; they may be side branches of the family tree.

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

For example, how would a scientist figure out evolutionary relationships between sharks, dolphins and wolves? Two fishy-looking animals and a four-legged, furry one. First we need to find the ...

Mammals aren't the only animals that humans have changed the evolutionary path of ... allowed them to blend in with the lichen-covered tree bark of their native habitats. But in 1848, the English ...

Modern scanning techniques, however, have shown it would have lived in the trees instead ... "By studying animals like ...

2001). Scientists since Darwin have wondered why animals like these perform cooperative behaviors that may be detrimental to their own evolutionary fitness. One key to understanding such ...

Contrary to first appearances, the subjects of the experiments are not the peach trees themselves ... Do the microbes in an animal’s digestive tract help shape their host’s evolution? Evolutionary ...