The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

What’s most distinctive about humans as a species, viewed collectively in human history? Penelope J. Corfield from the Royal ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

Lockwood, the lead author of the paper, named the new dinosaur Istiorachis macarthurae. Istiorachis means ‘sail spine’ in Ancient Greek, referencing the tall, sail-like structure along the creature’s ...

A new season of Jeopardy! has finally begun, and the first episode of Season 42 kicked off with the return of Jonathan ...

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The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.

Neomorphic, membrane-associated skeletal rods are found in disparate vertebrate lineages, but their evolution is poorly understood. Here we show that one of these elements—the calcar of bats ...

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.