An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (National ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

The ancient question of how life began on Earth may have an answer that lies not in our planet's primordial oceans, but in the vast expanse of space itself. Recent scientific discoveries are breathing ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

In previous iterations of the game, Jurassic World Evolution would often let you sell dinosaurs to get them off your park if they had bad traits, caused an influx, or turned out not to cohabitate well ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

Although they lacked a mechanism, some ancient Greek philosophers foreshadowed evolutionary ideas by seeking natural explanations for how life developed. Credit: Greek Reporter archive It’s quite ...