Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists worry that our climate is changing at a rate that the usual slow progress of evolution can’t match. A new study shows evidence of ...

In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An oft-touted fact by climate change skeptics is that Earth regularly (at least, geologically speaking) experiences peaks and valleys when it comes ...