Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Jurassic World Evolution 3 lets you create your dream dinosaur theme park, but you have to research the best upgrades before building them.

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

Turtles (Testudines) have captivated evolutionary biologists for decades due to their distinct morphology and ancient origins. Recent studies have elucidated the evolutionary transformations that led ...

Through a new review paper published in Nature, Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, uncovering secrets that would ...

Species that evolved rapidly in body size - such as the Greater Kudu and Big Horn Sheep - have fewer cancerous tumours, but the same is not true for non-cancerous tumours, according to new research.

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...