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.
Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.
It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...