An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Imagine plunging into the depths of the ocean and coming face to face with a creature that glides through the water with ...

Picture the Australian wilderness at dawn: the soft glow of sunlight dances across gum tree leaves, a gentle breeze stirs, ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman discusses LDS prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, who led fights over evolution, the age ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

This was a turning point in mammalian evolution, as most species, which were adapted to arboreal (tree-dwelling) life, began to adapt to terrestrial environments. The investigators, headed by ...