Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...

Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

A bird swoops toward a bright orange-and-black moth resting on a leaf in the Amazon. It pulls up at the last second. The ...

A carnivorous fruit fly living in bubbling African streams may sound like a fever dream. However, with the help of DNA analysis of a pinned insect from a museum in Zurich, researchers have managed to ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

Professors of ecology and evolutionary biology Roxanne Beltran and Erika Zavaleta have been recognized individually by the ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

The fear that grips you at the edge of a balcony is older than language, older than memory. It’s millions of years of ...