evolution

Scientists find that cuttlefish can delay gratification and those that can wait longest also do better in a learning test

The remarkable completeness and great age of the Little Foot skeleton makes it a crucially important specimen in human origins research

A look at enzyme evolution suggests life figured out how to use oxygen long before the main event

A newly published cryo-EM study characterizes a key step in the formation of the mitochondrial ribosome

Scientists also found that one of the genes appears to have been inherited from the Denisovans, an extinct group of ancient humans

Not only is the find the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found, it also helped our planet recover from an ice age

The first-known fossils of tyrannosaur embryos have shed light on the early development of the colossal animals, which could grow to 40 feet in length

Researchers have now described the first cloacal vent region from a small labrador-sized dinosaur called Psittacosaurus

Researchers explore if and how quickly Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus are theoretically able to adapt to survive on copper surfaces

New research shares how a "stop-start" pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles look so similar to ones from the past