(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...