A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically significant group of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

A new UC study has looked at the evolutionary significance of super genes and their potential role in species survival.

More than 2,000 workers at the Interior Department were fired in recent days, according to counts from workers groups and ...

The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...