Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

Imagine walking through a bustling aquarium, surrounded by the vibrant life of the sea. You pause in front of a tank filled ...

Pentadactyly (having five digits) is, in fact, an accident of evolutionary history. All tetrapods descended from a common ancestor that just happened to have limbs with five digits. And over the ...

A recent series of studies suggests that the brains of birds, reptiles and mammals all evolved independently — even though ...

Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints ... which raises the possibility that they appeared with the evolution of bones. While cartilage and bone are both connective tissue ...