Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

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

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

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...

Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most ...