The fossil of a Jurassic bird unearthed in southeastern China has major implications for the history of avian evolution, researchers say. The newly discovered Baminornis zhenghensis, a quail-sized ...

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A new study dates a Scottish meteorite impact to 990 million years ago, changing the timeline of complex life on Earth.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals a surprising evolutionary insight: sometimes, losing genes rather ...

When they reach their destinations, wandering spiders from the tropical family Ctenidae often choose between two distinct ...

Our evolutionary history bears the bite marks of our teeth. And not just on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, but across a vast range of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and not, ...

Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...