While investigating the impact of a recent supernova on life on Earth, a team of UCSC astronomers found an intriguing ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Professor Lars Schmitz spoke with Wired about the wide variety of shapes and forms that animal eyes take and the reasons for ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

But how did the evolution of life proceed through the early history of ... We used this information to layer on dates to the ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...