Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin unveiled a revolutionary idea. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species crashed through the ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Scientists often use sophisticated technology, so an AI tool designed to help them begin new investigations may see broad ...

“Once a population has achieved this evolvability, it seems like it didn’t get erased by future evolution,” Zaman said. This ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

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

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in France. “Of all the universities in the world,” Herring writes, “none has ever ...