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

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

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

Archaeology Human Evolution Strange pits on 'hobbit' teeth and other archaic humans could reveal hidden links in our family tree News By Kristina Killgrove published 12 June 2025 ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird species. They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by ...

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species.

Pokémon Go’s Ralts Community Day event features the feeling Pokémon. Our guide lists out perks and how to find a shiny.

Years after its Community Day, Niantic is offering Pokémon GO trainers another shot at a Shiny during Ralts Community Day Classic.

For the first time, researchers used data from protein shapes and combined it with data from genomic sequences to improve the reliability of evolutionary trees—which they describe as a critical ...