Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its huge, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body.
Similar to humans, chimpanzees use communication to coordinate their cooperative behavior – such as during hunting.
A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth’s evolution.
Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s in fact belong to a new, sizeable close relative of the modern giant panda
Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory.
The still-evolving view of evolution is the current "modern synthesis," which encompasses Charles Darwin's theory, Gregor Mendel's concept of heredity, and modern genome research.
Some copepods, diminutive crustaceans with an outsized place in the aquatic food web, can evolve fast enough to survive in the face of rapid climate change, according to new research that addresses a longstanding question in the field of genetics.
Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study led by UCL and University of Bristol researchers.
This discovery of plesiosaur fossils in an ancient riverbed suggests some species, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater.
Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults.
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process
Dating the expansion of a group of species when the fossil record is sparse is not a simple task, and can change as methods of analysis become more sophisticated.
Study by the University of Bonn shows that fossil finds from the High Alps come from three giants of the seas
Discovery provides insight about the evolution and anatomy of big, carnivorous dinosaurs
New research on remote Pacific islands yields surprising findings on ancestry, culture
A small, rare crayfish thought to be extinct for 30 years has been rediscovered in a cave in the City of Huntsville in northern Alabama by a team led by an assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles.
The true extent of how successful conservation efforts to protect sea turtle populations along the western coast of Central Africa have been revealed in a new study.
An international team of plant biologists and geneticists from Germany, the United States, Sweden, and France have found evidence overturning the commonly held assumption that mutations are entirely random across the genome.
Otters learn skills from each other – but they also solve some mysteries alone, new research shows.