Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

New research uncovers reversal of evolution in island plants. On the younger, volcanic islands of the Galápagos, wild tomato ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.