This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Our art critic picks the hottest tickets of the year – including the Bayeux Tapestry’s return to the UK and a line-up of ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

Whether you have been working in the beef industry for decades or just started recently, the ability of this highly diverse group of people to evolve swiftly and efficiently may ...

Caged in enclosures in Madrid's Retiro Park, they were described as 'strange', 'disfigured', 'brutal' and 'subhuman'.

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Joel McHale as Frank standing with a uniform and vest on in front of a crowd in Animal Control. Image via FOX After nearly a year of waiting, it's almost time to return to the Northwest Seattle Animal ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

Max Telford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

If you expect Jurassic World Evolution 3 to build on the past two games to create a more immersive, accurate experience of what raising dinosaurs in an enclosed space would be like, I'm here to tell ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...