The evolutionary paths that created snatching forelimbs in insects multiple times moved in a similar direction but didn't end ...

How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Discover What’s Streaming On: The BAU is back, baby! And after Criminal Minds: Evolution unmasked The Disciple in Season 18’s eventful finale, Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) headed back to prison to battle ...

Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes — the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus — huddled in oxygenated seafloor ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral ...

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 ...

We tend to think of reality as made up of things, governed by fixed laws that determine how they change over time. But biochemist Timothy Jackson argues that this is back to front: fundamental reality ...

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

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 ...