“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...
Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents ...
Today, climate change, pollution and habitat loss are shaping this evolution of color on Earth. For example, some fish are ...
Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ago during the course of our evolution ... appeared on Earth around 315 million ...
Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land animals said, “Feet before fins,” and took their first steps on earth ... fish from the Late Devonian period—when their evolution ...