Carcinization describes how unrelated species evolve similar crab-like bodies through natural selection. With at least five independent cases recorded, researchers are examining what makes this ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

We can explain our brains, bones, and even balls... but this very visible part of us still has evolutionists stumped.

Size matters when it comes to evolution But convergent evolution becomes something useful when we think of it as a kind of natural experiment. The size of primate testicles gives us a classic example.

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

The message of climate fatalism is just as wrong as the worst climate deniers. It is absurd to claim that it’s “too late” to stop climate change. We know for sure that it is possible to prevent the ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...