I know what you were thinking about. Birds, they’re birds.
New York mice are actively evolving into a new species: city mice
Soon they’ll carry little smartphones around. I hope.
Why do bachelors exist in the animal world?
Those majestic lions, with a harem of females? They’re just compensating for something.
Bamboo sharks really have to put their back into eating — literally
Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.
Llama-like creature Darwin used to call the “strangest animal ever discovered” finally gets a family
“Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope.”
Schools in Turkey will stop teaching evolution
“We believe that these subjects are beyond their [students] comprehension,” said a senior Turkish bureaucrat at the Education Ministry.
Medieval Christian monks may have sped up the evolution of the modern chicken
We may have to thank Christian monks for today’s chicken.
If you like having sex, you should thank pathogens for making it possible
#wingmen.
Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures
Chow down.
Deep burial in sub-seafloor sediments seems to ‘freeze’ microorganism evolution
*pause*
These fish have evolved the ability to leap onto land — to avoid being eaten
These fish are quite comfortable out of water.
New paper explains why predatory dinosaurs walked on two feet while mammals stayed on all fours
It’s all about the tail.
Carnivorous plants all over the world used convergent evolution to start eating flesh
This means being carnivores must have been an excellent solution for these plants.
Bizarre, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber might be from a new branch of life
Researchers have found a very old and “alien like” insect and they’ve decided it doesn’t fit anywhere in the current tree of life.
Evolution in a lab flask: scientists witness virus speciating into two distinct species
Real-time evolution, what more proof do you need?
Hands and digits evolved from fish fins, groundbreaking study proves
Our beloved hands are coded by the same genes that make fish fins.
Unsettling sculpture showcases how humans would look if we evolved to survive car crashes
Kinda looks like an end-boss in an RPG.
Study suggests that primates prefer alcohol in their nectar
Looks like happy hour isn’t just a human thing.
Research suggests turtle shells evolved for digging, not protection
The discovery highlights how trait functions can change with evolution.
Humans got smarter to care for needy infants, making them more helpless in the process
University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our infants, in a self-reinforcing cycle: bigger brains led to shorter pregnancies, requiring parents to have even bigger brains.