When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole.

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional ...