Darwin’s “advertising” — the magnificent biological art of Ernst Haeckel
You might have not heard his name, but you should have.
You might have not heard his name, but you should have.
Instead of the domesticated horses deriving from today's wild horses, it's the other way around.
Sometimes, it's good to remember that even evolution doesn't want you to be perfect. Good enough is just fine.
Plants might have moved on to the land 100 million years earlier than we thought.
An amazing 'living fossil' suggests ancient marine life evolved the software for walking before the hardware.
Well here's a shocker.
These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.
The brain changes and the skull follows.
It's the equivalent of your grandkids being a new species. Pretty crazy.
Life's always greener on the other side. Even if that's the ocean.
Long neck, long history.
Natural selection fosters certain qualities so aliens shouldn't look extremely different from humans.
I know what you were thinking about. Birds, they're birds.
Soon they'll carry little smartphones around. I hope.
Those majestic lions, with a harem of females? They're just compensating for something.
Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.
“Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope."
“We believe that these subjects are beyond their comprehension,” said a senior Turkish bureaucrat at the Education Ministry.
We may have to thank Christian monks for today's chicken.
These fish are quite comfortable out of water.
This means being carnivores must have been an excellent solution for these plants.
Researchers have found a very old and "alien like" insect and they've decided it doesn't fit anywhere in the current ...
Real-time evolution, what more proof do you need?
Our beloved hands are coded by the same genes that make fish fins.
Kinda looks like an end-boss in an RPG.
Looks like happy hour isn't just a human thing.
The discovery highlights how trait functions can change with evolution.
University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our ...
A deep, low pitch voice is often sought after in a man, but a new study suggests this characteristic might ...
Found in only eight caves on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, this eyeless fish can walk.
What does a weird tendon on your inner wrist have to do with evolution? This video explains.
Researchers have manipulated the genome of chicken embryos so that they develop dinosaur-like bones in their lower legs.
A new study measuring the forces that shape bacterial genomes determined that a difference in efficiency of hundredth of a ...
The latest, most complete tree is the result of a three-year effort by researchers from over a dozen institutions from ...
New research shows that the first vertebrates had a surprisingly easy time adapting from fins to legs.
A new study examined the way gene families evolve from ancestral genes, finding the original genes were promiscuous in that ...
Where are all the aliens? Why haven’t we seen or heard their signals from space? Could we really have been ...
Once with the advent of agriculture, and its spread to Europe from the Near East, human society was transformed forever. ...
As more Millennials are leaving religion in droves, or choosing not to identify with any faith, acceptance of evolution among ...
Self-preservation and reproduction are the most powerful instincts, and life forms on Earth have devised all sorts of gimmicks and ...
The concepts of biodiversity and evolution are generally thought of as something that occurs in thousands, maybe millions of years ...
We humans arguably came to dominate the world thanks to our dexterous hands, which allow gripping tools and manipulating objects. ...
A new paper published Thursday in Science looks at how climate change is (out of all things) making the tongue ...
Some researchers have made an interesting connection: if you measure the complexity of life or how big the genome is ...
Love is complicated enough, even without intense scrutiny from scientists. Do we fall in love with someone because we find ...
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