A dolphin breaking the surface for air can seem like a reminder of its mammalian past. But evolution is not nostalgia. The ...

Modern mammals are the result of millions of years of evolution. This video takes you back to their early forms, showing how ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Xenarthrans constitute one of the most distinctive mammalian clades, with an evolutionary history deeply rooted in South America and a present-day ...

Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far ...

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...

In the intricate machinery of the inner ear, hearing begins with a protein that moves a few billionths of a meter up to ...