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The genders kill differently -- and one paper proposes it's because of our ancient roles

I do like this theory.

Fossil Friday: Newly-found fossil teeth solve ancient monkey mystery

Take a bite out of this story.

Megalodon's teeth evolved over 12 millions years, researchers find

This is not the Nemo you're looking for.

New research suggests humanity's ancestors began walking upright earlier than believed

Walk like an Egyptian?

Seen more spiders lately? That's because they're no longer afraid of the light, researchers say

So that's why...

Poaching evolution: elephants are evolving to lose their tusks

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

Barn swallows have evolved to live alongside us, new research reveals

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

Humans are exterminating mammals faster than evolution can keep up

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

Stunningly preserved 228-million-year-old fossils shed light on mysterious turtle origins

The turtle relative is the oldest with a beak.

The Timeline of Human Evolution

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

The world's first animals also caused the first global warming event -- but it took 100 million years

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

One genetic change 3 million years ago made our brains big -- and won us the world

I'm not complaining.

Earth's first giant predators produced killer babies

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

Early baleen whales were fearsome predators with wicked teeth, but lost them entirely

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

Mass extinctions don't come out of the blue -- and we're seeing some of the signs today

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

Darwin's "advertising" -- the magnificent biological art of Ernst Haeckel

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

Saddle up: New evidence forces us to rethink what we know about horse history

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

Debunking some misconceptions about evolution

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

Plants colonized the land 500 million years ago -- much earlier than we thought

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

Primitive 'walking' fish can teach us how the first land animals evolved

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

People who don't understand evolution are much more likely to reject it

Well here's a shocker.

Amazing fossil shows that Earth's earliest birds evolved just like Darwin's finches

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

Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today

The brain changes and the skull follows.

Different species can emerge in only two generations, new study reveals

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

Humans got taller, then bulkier in 'bursts' during our evolution

Growing strong!

Fossilized ancient lizard shows how dinos evolved to live in the oceans

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

Newly described genus hints at the evolutionary roots of the giraffe

Long neck, long history.

Aliens could be more like us than we think, say Oxford scientists

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

Great tits are evolving, new study shows

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

New York mice are actively evolving into a new species: city mice

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

Why do bachelors exist in the animal world?

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

Bamboo sharks really have to put their back into eating -- literally

Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.

Llama-like creature Darwin used to call the "strangest animal ever discovered" finally gets a family

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

Schools in Turkey will stop teaching evolution

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

Medieval Christian monks may have sped up the evolution of the modern chicken

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

If you like having sex, you should thank pathogens for making it possible

#wingmen.

Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures

Chow down.

Deep burial in sub-seafloor sediments seems to 'freeze' microorganism evolution

*pause*

These fish have evolved the ability to leap onto land -- to avoid being eaten

These fish are quite comfortable out of water.

New paper explains why predatory dinosaurs walked on two feet while mammals stayed on all fours

It's all about the tail.

Carnivorous plants all over the world used convergent evolution to start eating flesh

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

Bizarre, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber might be from a new branch of life

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

Evolution in a lab flask: scientists witness virus speciating into two distinct species

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

Hands and digits evolved from fish fins, groundbreaking study proves

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

Unsettling sculpture showcases how humans would look if we evolved to survive car crashes

Kinda looks like an end-boss in an RPG.

Study suggests that primates prefer alcohol in their nectar

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

Research suggests turtle shells evolved for digging, not protection

The discovery highlights how trait functions can change with evolution.

Humans got smarter to care for needy infants, making them more helpless in the process

University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our infants, in a self-reinforcing cycle: bigger brains led to shorter pregnancies, requiring parents to have even bigger brains.

Deep male voices might have evolved to intimidate other males, not attract females

A deep, low pitch voice is often sought after in a man, but a new study suggests this characteristic might have evolved to intimidate other males, not attract females.

Very rare waterfall-climbing fish can walk like a salamander

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