The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

With just venom and precision, these snakes can defend themselves from afar, without ever needing to bite you. Here’s what they teach us about evolution and survival.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

When it comes to climbing and grasping objects, it’s easy to see how being thumbless might be a hindrance. While true thumbs are specialised finger bones, some animals have evolved thumbs from their ...

Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark cave environments, with some lineages dating back over 11 million years.

Current and former executives at Stockholm-based online gambling company Evolution AB were secretly filmed describing how its casino games made their way illegally to countries such as Iran, Sudan and ...

What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird hybrid creature is actually a perfect excuse for us to explain an intriguing evolutionary phenomenon. The creature is the ...

Convergent evolution shows how life on Earth often develops similar traits under similar conditions—raising the question of whether aliens on distant worlds might evolve to look like us. Trump plan to ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...

Background: Diapause is a condition of developmental arrest in anticipation of adverse environmental conditions present in many diverse taxa. Diapause is a key adaptation that enabled the colonization ...