Modern mammals are the result of millions of years of evolution. This video takes you back to their early forms, showing how different—and sometimes strange—they once were. It’s a reminder that nature ...

New study traces how a protein essential for hearing evolved from an ancient ion channel into today’s exquisitely sensitive ...

The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and thus also of humans. However, the evolutionary origin of the genetic program of hair was previously unknown.

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg. This was Elephas ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe though probably not for food. The careful ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Despite their incredible success, ammonites died out at the end of the Cretaceous in the same mass extinction that killed the ...