A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...
Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...
Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...
Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...
Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...
Humans can only see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here’s why evolution may have intentionally hidden ...
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...
Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...
Why does a sneeze take over your whole face? And why can light trigger it in some people? The answers lie in brain evolution ...
Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...
In this eye-opening talk, fish paleobiologist Lauren Sallan explains how one of Earth’s most devastating mass extinctions reshaped life on the planet. Around 359 million years ago, nearly 96% of fish ...
The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has emerged as a pre-eminent model for studying adaptive evolution and the mechanics of speciation. Originally marine, sticklebacks have ...