The new species looked like a lizard with a short body and four limbs but had snake-like jaws and curved teeth like pythons, showing a mix of traits from both lizards and snakes.

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining ...

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Overview of the process of obtaining genomic diversity of influenza virus in a population replicated from a single particle. (a) MDCK cells were infected with influenza vi ...

Billions of years of evolution have supplied humans with five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. A new study analyzing memory engrams—networks of neurons across brain regions that work ...

Mid 1970s American cars are a particular weird variety. They come from a time of great change in America's domestic automotive industry, and not always for the best of reasons. This explains why ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands ...