One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

Murphy, a National Academy of Sciences member and Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, is Texas A&M’s third ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers said in a statement. Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...