Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding ...

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

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

Rhinos’ evolutionary relationships became a little clearer with the sequencing of the oldest proteins yet. Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever ...

Rhinos’ evolutionary relationships became a little clearer with the sequencing of the oldest proteins yet. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Researchers have described proteins that they say ...

If the unusual fossil represents a new branch on the evolutionary tree, it could have significant implications for our understanding of the dynamics of evolution. It might necessitate reevaluation of ...

The database spans seven major chordate groups-from mammals and birds to jawless fish-highlighting the evolutionary richness of olfactory systems.

This sophisticated maternal care in a creature with a relatively simple nervous system demonstrates how powerfully natural selection has shaped maternal behaviors across even the most unexpected ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr Jack M Craig, Dr Blair Hedges, and Dr Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses ...