Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

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

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

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Among quadruped animals, handedness has never been documented, presumably because they need all their limbs to move. But in species such as humans and kangaroos, which have evolved the ability to ...

May 26, 2025 — A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts -- land plants so old they don't even have proper roots ...

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch Torridon in Scotland, where the microfossil was discovered. Photo: ...