One critical gene in green algae responsible for multicellular evolution, understanding of cancer origin

"For tens of millions of years before their ultimate demise, dinosaurs were beginning to lose their edge as the dominant species on Earth."

An idea first proposed 138 years ago that limbs evolved from gills, which has been widely discredited due to lack of supporting fossil evidence, may prove correct after all

Evolutionary biology tells us why venom is useful for snakes, but chemistry tells us how venom works

Award is part of $8.7 million effort across eight institutions in United States and Europe

"We were driven by curiosity about the evolution of the nuclear pore complex"

Substantial amounts of Neandertal and Denisovan DNA can now be robustly identified in the genomes of present-day Melanesians

Using fossilized remains, scientists completed the entire mitrochondrial genome of the shelled mammal the size of a VW Beetle

C. abyssinicus revealed answers about gorilla lineage but also provided fossil evidence that our common ancestor migrated from Africa.

Scientists have long thought that cancer is an evolutionary process that involves cells acquiring mutations that replicate and persist over time