Homo sapiens is not a finished product. In fact, there is evidence that modern humans are evolving faster than ever before, as mutations and natural selection continue to change us. How so? For one thing, we drink milk....

The Evolution Eraser is shaped like a small monkey on one end,...

The eye is so useful that it evolved multiple times, so perhaps blondes just more fun that blond hair also evolved more: That's my theory and I'm sticking by it. Well, at least the se...

All is fair in love and war, and especially the warfare of love. Locke Rowe of the University of Toronto discovered that male water striders have evolved its antennae into a specialized hook to grab o...

That, Neatoramanauts, is narwhal...  ...no teeth inside their mouth, and this presents an evolutionary conundrum: “Noth...

Scientists have been speculating and arguing about when hominids mastered the art of producing fire for a long time. Estimates ranged from a few hundred thousands years ago to two million years ago. But now hard evidence...

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is what happens when a...

It looks like an insignificant spec of dust, but if scientists are right, it could be the ancestor of us all. Meet Otavia antiqua, a microscopic, sponge-like African fossil that could...

Why do we take a parasitic weed, one that is rather difficult to gather, and hang it in the house so people can kiss underneath? That's a rather weird tradition when you think abut it. Smithsonian tells several old tales...

Ah, the sacrifices that lab mice...  ...delicious food in order to find out the evolutionary advantage to eating cooked versus raw m...  ...says Rachel Carmody, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard who cooked up the...  ...on — which may have given...