By examining the genetic makeup of bones at a museum, researchers at the University of Western Australia can confidently say ...

According to new research, relying on ants as a sole food source has evolved at least 12 times in mammals since the reign of ...

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary ...

Evolution is an incredible process that has filled our world with a richly diverse set of species. In this sense, it is a ...

And once a mammal becomes an obligate ant-eater, it usually doesn’t go back. In fact, almost all lineages that adopted this diet stayed that way. Only one group, the elephant shrew genus Macroscelides ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

What is a placental mammal? Learn more about placental mammals and how having a placenta may have been an evolutionary ...

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial rocked the nation.

Trish Stratus may get one more run with the WWE Women's Championship. The WWE Hall of Famer made her return Friday Night on SmackDown as Tiffany Stratton chose ...