Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

Before bats could fly, they used hand-like limbs. Scientists now reveal how evolution transformed those hands into wings.

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

Here we present the results of an initial project by the Monocot AToL (Angiosperm Tree of Life) team on phylogeny and evolution in Poales, using sequence data for 81 plastid genes (exceeding 101 ...

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