Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

It’s a striking example of evolution stumbling upon the same solution for two very different types animals, in this case mammals and reptiles.

Here are our favorite examples of evolution making the same creature, or same physical trait, twice. Sometimes, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, ...

Several hundred million years ago, there were no vertebrate animals on land. The only vertebrate species in the world were fish, all of which lived underwater. Competition for food was intense. This ...

The classic example of divergent evolution is what is known as Darwin’s finches. (They are actually a type of tanager, not true finches, but that makes no difference to the argument.) When Darwin ...

Convergent evolution explained with 13 examples. By Holly Chetan-Welsh and Lisa Hendry. We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor.

Evolution is often perceived as an incredibly slow, natural process driven by environmental pressures over millennia. That characterization certainly holds true, but humans have also repeatedly ...

As a Nature paper from 2017 pointed out, their physical “resemblance is considered the most striking example of convergent evolution in mammals.” Daily Newsletter Get the best tech, science ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...