Tag: evolution

A lucky find now provides a face for Lucy's ancestor.

Losses include but are not limited to those giant eagles at the end of Lord of the Rings.

Nature has a way of pressuring creatures to adapt to their environments over generations.

Mars is a strange place and any humans born there are bound to look radically different.

This just goes to show how complex our evolutionary history really is.

This creature had a whale of a time.

I do like this theory.

Take a bite out of this story.

This is not the Nemo you're looking for.

Walk like an Egyptian?

So that's why...

It would be an amazing example of evolution -- if it weren't so tragic.

They live with us, but they're not domesticated.

Saving biodiversity makes more sense than waiting millions of years for it to re-evolve.

The turtle relative is the oldest with a beak.

We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.

There's a metaphor here, and an important lesson for ourselves.

I'm not complaining.

If the adults weren't scary enough, the babies were also killing machines.

Baleen, one surprising fossil suggests, evolved from gums rather than teeth.