Photo: Rebecca A. PylesScientists studying a speci...  ...d three-toed skink discovered that they're seeing evolution in action: the lizard lays eggs on coasts but bir...  ...lays eggs on coasts but birth babies in mountains. Evolutionary records shows that nearly a hundred reptile linea...  ...ve young provide...

Paleontologist Philip Gingerich looks for sea monsters in the Egyptian desert. He assembles fossils of ancient whales that died there when it was covered by an ocean. One such whale is the Basilosaurus, which had small h...

Have you ever been told that the reason giraffes have such long neck is that they evolved to eat leaves on tall trees? Well, you've been lied to. The real reason (surprise, surprise) is sex and mating:The latest theory &...

(National Film Board link) The English title is From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning, a 2000 film by Quebec animator Claude Cloutier. -via Everlasting Blort...

(YouTube Link) We've previously posted the wo...  ...is video is his depiction of the Big Bang and the evolution of life. The story is told with moving murals th...

Paleontologists recently found fossils in Africa that indicate that multicellular life evolved on Earth 1.5 billion years before previously thought: "The cursor on the origin of complex multicellular life is no longer...

A couple of two million-year-old skeletons found in South Africa have been classified as a new species and named Australopithecus sediba. This discovery may be a "transitional species" between australopithecines and huma...

Are liberals and atheists smarter and more evolved than conservatives? Yes, according to a new (and, needless to say, controversial) study by psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa:Kanazawa's theory is that intelligence—par...

The oldest dinosaur fossil ever found dates back...  ...rchers to believe dinosaurs diverged from another evolutionary line around 243 million years ago. “Back then...

In Scientific American, Jesse Bering writes at len...  ...lected in different handshakes, and the gesture's evolutionary similarities with those of other primates: In...