Scientists have just made the most groundbreaking discovery in U.S. animal evolution in the past 100 years! This shocking find is reshaping what we know about how species have adapted, evolved, and ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

Peto’s paradox is that bigger, longer-lived species should have higher cancer prevalence, yet they don’t seem to. Back in ...

Feb. 26, 2025 — It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the ...

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch Torridon in Scotland, where the microfossil was discovered. Photo: ...

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

Intelligent male mosquitofish mate more, suggesting intelligence and brainpower evolved partly for reproduction, not just ...

C. D. Darlington of M. J. D. White's “Animal Cytology and Evolution” 1. In our opinion, it would be unfortunate if the many criticisms given under the authority of Darlington's name were ...