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

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco is helping scientists to answer the evolutionary mystery of how starfish evolved ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of tyrannosauroid—the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. The finding offers new insights into how massive predators like T. rex evolved, ...

Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...