Humanity’s Ancestors Nearly Died Out, Genetic Study Suggests The population crashed following climate change about 930,000 years ago, scientists concluded. Other experts aren’t convinced by the analysis.
This Gecko’s Camouflage Is So Good, It Masqueraded as Another Species A reptile found in Madagascar is impossible to tell apart from tree bark by day. For decades, scientists had mixed it up with a relative.
505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found The specimens are evidence of how little the squishy, tentacled predators have changed over the history of life on Earth.
An Evolutionary Debate on the Risks of Childbirth Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky.
The Birds Are Singing, but Not for Me Evolution’s curse of creeping deafness changes how a biologist experiences nature.