For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.
It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...
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