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 ...

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

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

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

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 four billion ...

Mammal evolution to upright posture followed complex branching path rather than simple step-by-step progression.

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.