The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts - from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain - have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

Pterodactyls (Pterodactylus antiquus) are extinct flying reptiles. They lived from the Late Jurassic period, about 150 ...

These insects resemble tiny pieces of popcorn as they move about. Discover more about the waxy nymphs of the flatid ...

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...