Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre new ...

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, there were a bunch of one-celled microbes, swimming, eating, reproducing, doing all the things that a one-cell ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...