Tag: evolution

So that's why...

It would be an amazing example of evolution -- if it weren't so tragic.

They live with us, but they're not domesticated.

Saving biodiversity makes more sense than waiting millions of years for it to re-evolve.

The turtle relative is the oldest with a beak.

We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.

There's a metaphor here, and an important lesson for ourselves.

I'm not complaining.

If the adults weren't scary enough, the babies were also killing machines.

Baleen, one surprising fossil suggests, evolved from gums rather than teeth.

An incoming mass extinction isn't as hard to spot as we'd believed.

You might have not heard his name, but you should have.

Instead of the domesticated horses deriving from today's wild horses, it's the other way around.

Sometimes, it's good to remember that even evolution doesn't want you to be perfect. Good enough is just fine.

Plants might have moved on to the land 100 million years earlier than we thought.

An amazing 'living fossil' suggests ancient marine life evolved the software for walking before the hardware.

Well here's a shocker.

These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.

The brain changes and the skull follows.

It's the equivalent of your grandkids being a new species. Pretty crazy.

Growing strong!

Life's always greener on the other side. Even if that's the ocean.

Long neck, long history.

Natural selection fosters certain qualities so aliens shouldn't look extremely different from humans.

I know what you were thinking about. Birds, they're birds.

Soon they'll carry little smartphones around. I hope.

Those majestic lions, with a harem of females? They're just compensating for something.

Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.

“Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope."

“We believe that these subjects are beyond their comprehension,” said a senior Turkish bureaucrat at the Education Ministry.

We may have to thank Christian monks for today's chicken.

#wingmen.

Chow down.

*pause*

These fish are quite comfortable out of water.

It's all about the tail.

This means being carnivores must have been an excellent solution for these plants.

Researchers have found a very old and "alien like" insect and they've decided it doesn't fit anywhere in the current ...

Real-time evolution, what more proof do you need?

Our beloved hands are coded by the same genes that make fish fins.

Kinda looks like an end-boss in an RPG.

Looks like happy hour isn't just a human thing.

The discovery highlights how trait functions can change with evolution.

University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our ...

A deep, low pitch voice is often sought after in a man, but a new study suggests this characteristic might ...

Found in only eight caves on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, this eyeless fish can walk.

What does a weird tendon on your inner wrist have to do with evolution? This video explains.

Researchers have manipulated the genome of chicken embryos so that they develop dinosaur-like bones in their lower legs.

A new study measuring the forces that shape bacterial genomes determined that a difference in efficiency of hundredth of a ...

The latest, most complete tree is the result of a three-year effort by researchers from over a dozen institutions from ...