Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Were the first animals predators or filter feeders like the sponges living in today's oceans? And what role did symbiosis with algae play, as with reef-building corals? Surprising findings by a ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago and ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in ...

Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most ...