One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach ...

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Evolutionary algorithms have emerged as a robust alternative to traditional greedy approaches for decision tree induction. By mimicking the natural selection process, these algorithms iterate over ...

The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...

This raises the possibility of gleaning molecular insights about evolutionary relationships, biological sex and diet from even older animals — maybe even dinosaurs.

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out the evolution of almost everything with eight legs. But that's the ...

A Pokemon fan imagines what the Bulbasaur line would look like if it existed in the Digimon universe, with a 6-stage branching evolution tree.

Analysis of DNA from earthworms has challenged the theory proposed by Charles Darwin. The theory dictates that creatures will go through small changes over time to enter their next evolutionary ...

Starfish are some of the most recognisable animals in the world. But their simple appearance belies an evolutionary mystery - how did these animals evolve such an unusual shape? A new fossil discovery ...