Hurricane coming? Get bigger toepads
Study suggests lizards evolve to hang on.
Lizard groups that frequently experience hurricanes evolve larger toepads than those that don’t, according to a new s...
Lizard groups that frequently experience hurricanes evolve larger toepads than those that don’t, according to a new s...
Here’s one for the evolutionary theorists. British researchers say they have found worms that are genetically pred...
The ancient stone at Nilpena fossil site, about 600 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, has yielded some o...
A complete Elpistostege watsoni fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada, has shed new light on how vertebrate hands cou...
Palaeontologists have found the oldest fossil of a modern bird, originating from before the last mass extinction that...
Scientists say they have discovered the earliest known example of an animal evolving to lose body parts it no longer ...
A new approach to the mammalian tree of life allows comparison between mammals as distantly related as a platypus and...
A revelation that the dung beetle’s thoracic horns grew from wing genes challenges biology textbook definitions of no...
Compared to other vertebrate animals such as reptiles, mammals have complex and unexpectedly weird backbones. Their ...
By their nature, conflicting ideas about evolution aren’t easily resolved. Some – such as the role of hybridisation i...
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly the size of Malta slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The...
When ancient Near Eastern farmers migrated westward into Europe about 8500 years ago, they brought their pigs with th...