Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

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A demonstrator holds photos of freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi before and after his captivity.

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...