Pokémon Gold and Silver introduced 100 new Pokémon in 1999, and since then, many have been outclassed. These ones desperately ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

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

Research published in Current Biology indicates that volcanic eruptions and climate adaptations played key roles in their evolution. Future fossil discoveries in underexplored regions like the ...

However, being taller and more muscular comes with greater evolutionary costs, as a male must eat a lot and also be physically healthy both during childhood and as an adult to achieve and maintain ...

Evolution = optimization Evolution is the driving force for every organism. Given its environment, an organism adapts, survives, and withstands selective pressure. "Adaptation can be seen as an ...

To understand what occurred along the vertebrate evolutionary tree between fish and mammals, the researchers looked at the activity of those same enhancers in frogs and lizards. In frog tadpoles ...

The secondary structure proportions of the same gene may vary between different species, possibly due to evolutionary divergence. Furthermore, variations in secondary structure proportions were ...