Imagine walking through a bustling aquarium, surrounded by the vibrant life of the sea. You pause in front of a tank filled with sleek sharks and shimmering salmon. In a surprising twist of biological ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor and all its descendants is an unrealizable dream, awkwardly grouping ...

Networks of Genome Evolution Replace the Tree of Life Evolutionary biologists used the sequences of multiple genomes of diverse life-forms to construct and compare thousands of phylogenetic trees ...

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 ...