An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

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

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...