Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival.

This video highlights the importance of trusting the creative process through a comparison of past and current artwork. It showcases how consistent practice leads to improvement in drawing, painting, ...

New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and evolve. Tiny lipid bubbles behaved very differently depending on their membrane ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...

With the upcoming arrival of "Pokémon Winds and Waves," fans have reignited debate over how older creatures should evolve: literally and creatively. Someone on Reddit posted a simple suggestion to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Based on my experience, the Venn diagram of people who are currently playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and people who poured countless hours ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs Romans Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal ...

Life on Earth has a long and fascinating history, but scientists still uncover surprises that change what we know. A recent fossil discovery in China has revealed that complex animal life began ...

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...