When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...

How come our universe is full of disorder, when all elementary particles appear to follow strictly ordered laws of physics?

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

SAN DIEGO(AP) — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

Scientists from China have identified the existence of human-like speech pathways in the brains of marmoset monkeys, ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.

Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. (File image courtesy UCSD) Evolution works over millennia. Climate change ...