What they are, why we should care and what we can do about the problems they cause By Matthew Holloway The term invasive ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

Hiding beneath scrap metal and abandoned cars in the Australian desert, you can find an ordinary-looking species of gecko ...

The "boring billion" shaped multicellularity, with energy demands sparking complexity. This era shows evolution's cost.

A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

The modern emperor penguin likely evolved much later within the last few million years ... Unlike a number of other penguin ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...