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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel ...

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