Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – traits that help us survive.

The allure of an aquatic lifestyle, reminiscent of our finned friends, is undeniably enchanting. However, the reality of our ...

In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

B efore there was Charles Darwin, there was Erasmus.

Men want hot women, and women want rich men. Or do they? Relationship scientist and UC Davis psychology professor Paul ...

The ability of fish to feel pain has been a long-running debate in the scientific community. On one side, you have the ...

Why don't humans have tails anymore?Author Mark Grabowski Senior Lecturer of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...

Orcas are born with powerful bodies and sharp teeth, but they are not born knowing how to hunt. Here’s why they depend so ...