Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Yet scientists have discovered a surprising new clue to the origins of human bipedalism in a commonplace, pinkie-size fish. Analyzing the DNA of the threespine stickleback, researchers led by ...

Have you ever wondered why our ears look the way they do? That soft, curved shape we rarely think twice about might actually ...

However, this image oversimplifies the process of evolution. We did not evolve directly ... you’d end up including tetrapods like cows and humans! “We don’t call vertebrates with four legs fish, even ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

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“This is the most comprehensive scientific publication on the distribution of fish bioluminescence ever written, and the authors show that bioluminescence evolved way more times independently than ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...