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 ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

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 ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin ...

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 ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren't the only ...

Palaeontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. Mosura fentoni was about the ...