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.

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 ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types and communication networks at the interface between mother ...

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 ...

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

Wild tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands may be providing scientists with an unprecedented look at “devolution” according to a new study. Devolution, also known as reverse evolution, is the process in ...