A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival. Across butterflies and a day-flying moth that split from one another tens of ...

New research led by Flinders University argues thick tooth enamel helped kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, ...

For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

Evolution has been known as survival of the fittest, however the fittest may also have been simply the luckiest. Though genetics are a driving force of evolution, many evolutionary changes were a ...

In Lake Malawi, Africa, fish known as cichlids have been evolving astonishingly fast—the lake hosts at least 800 species of them. Researchers who sequenced the genomes of these fish found that ...