Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

A widely popular idea in psychology and evolutionary science suggests that the distinctive look of the human eye—particularly ...

Rhinos’ evolutionary relationships became a little clearer with the sequencing of the oldest proteins yet. Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

Justine Paradis: So, perhaps a drier climate could impact the evolution of a language over time, specifically with tonal languages like Mandarin, which require fine-tuned control of the vocal folds.

University of Auckland evolutionary biologist and his colleagues applied a probabilistic model to three cases of evolution: cephalopods (including octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and vampire ...

Pushing back the evolutionary tree From its diagnostic ilium (one of three paired pelvic bones), we identified a new species of Litoria from the family Pelodryadidae.

This led researchers to conclude that the beginning of the evolutionary radiation of the modern groups, the point on the evolutionary tree where the ancestors of amphibians and amniotes separated ...

In 2015, a genetic study in the journal Nature suggested that the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off the evolutionary tree in its own direction 64 million years ...

The origins of language Date: May 9, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Summary: Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse ...