Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

The tree of life is a massive framework that maps every living organism, showing how species evolved and branched over ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...