A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Genetic structure clearly influences the evolution of animal sociality. But do genes themselves influence an individual’s altruistic behavior? As new genomic tools become available, one of the ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years ... explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes ...

Picture this: you’re gazing into a vibrant aquarium, entranced by the hypnotic dance of fish. But what if I told you that ...

If evolution occurs through gradations, the critics say, how could it have created the separate parts of the eye ... The first animals with anything resembling an eye lived about 550 million ...

part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Although almost certainly still encased in fleshy lobes, appendages could have helped support or even propel the animal in shallow water or mud flats. If so, it changes our view of the evolution ...

The setup was designed with a deceptively simple question in mind: Do the microbes in an animal’s digestive tract help shape their host’s evolution ... who helped construct part of the site in 2017 ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

The invention of the eye ushered in a more brutal and competitive world. Vision made it possible for animals to become active hunters, and sparked an evolutionary arms race that transformed the ...