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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

For centuries, Korea has stood at the heart of fermentation culture. Traditional Korean alcohols made from rice, nuruk ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

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

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

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