That’s a problem for scientists who want to understand evolution on a larger scale. And it means that building a true Tree of ...

Professor Lars Schmitz spoke with Wired about the wide variety of shapes and forms that animal eyes take and the reasons for ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

From the genius and torment of Charles Darwin to the scientific revolution that spawned the tree of life, from the power of sex to drive evolutionary change to the importance of mass extinctions ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck ...