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Viruses are a seemingly inherent part of mammalian evolution, two studies suggest.
Dry climate and urbanization prompted the first mosquitoes to increasingly bite humans -- and things aren't looking too well for the future.
An art historian and a biologist form an uncanny pair in order to reveal the timeline of evolution for your favorite fruits ande vegetables.
Subspecies play a more important role in evolution than previously thought.
Hazda tribespeople spend just as much time in sedentary behavior like people from the US. They prefer not to sit though, and this has positive effects for their health.
The microbes in our guts have helped our ancestors adapt to new environments.
The dog-sized ape had a more flexible lower back that allowed it to walk more like humans do.
A biblical-like ancient snake is revealing new insights into snake evolution.
Male finches continuously fight for their partner's attention -- and it seems like it's in both their interests to do so.
It had teeth.
A lucky find now provides a face for Lucy's ancestor.
Losses include but are not limited to those giant eagles at the end of Lord of the Rings.
Nature has a way of pressuring creatures to adapt to their environments over generations.
This just goes to show how complex our evolutionary history really is.
This creature had a whale of a time.
I do like this theory.
Take a bite out of this story.
This is not the Nemo you're looking for.
Walk like an Egyptian?
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 [students] comprehension,” said a senior Turkish bureaucrat at the Education Ministry.
We may have to thank Christian monks for today's chicken.
