Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is ...

leaving about a fifth of the primate tree of life unresolved. The value of timed evolutionary trees containing every species ...

Ancient species may have evolved at a slower pace and endured longer, but evolutionary rates sped up significantly following ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Chart of Life Extended by Nearly 1.5 Billion Years Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree.

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

The largest timed molecular phylogenetic tree of life, called a ‘timetree ... as they capture the evolutionary history which gave us our present biodiversity, they also form essential ...