In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

Charles Darwin is credited for some of his major findings and observations about nature, evolution and species.

The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of ...

For thousands of years, spoken language has set humans apart from all other species. The ability to convey complex ideas, ...

The London Underground mosquito been extensively studied as an example of humans driving evolution and emergence of new species ...

All imported timber sold in Australia would carry a label indicating where it was grown, under a proposal by the national ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of natural selection.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

All these changes have contributed to morphological divergence between different species of free-living tunicates ... to favour the evolutionary origin of new adaptations," concludes Cristian ...