Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged ...

Scientists are now investigating animals that resist cosmic radiation and may be actively using it to survive and evolve.

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

Yeast evolution offers insights into climate change adaptation, highlighting the trade-offs and challenges species face as ...

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution.

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the ...

At roughly 22 feet long and tipping the scales near 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the heavyweight champion of North American ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...