A private owner has donated a fossil that could...  ...rms.  This totally rearranges the previous T.Rex evolution paradigm. The 125 million-year-old fossil dinosa...

Jesse Bering writes in Scientific American that bl...  ...to be an appeasement display. Interestingly, this evolutionary hypothesis is aligned with a recent argument adva...

One of my favorite scientists Carl Zimmer has an extensive article in Time Magazine that looks at recent research on how your dog thinks. Trying to plumb the canine mind is a favorite pastime of dog owners. "Everyone fe...

Charles Darwin was a lifelong fan of flowers, but...  ...t will bring together the many theories of flower evolution . If you could travel back to 130 million years a...

In contrast to horses, which can walk within an hour of being born, or newborn baboons, which can cling to their mothers as they swing through the trees, human babies are unusually helpless and vulnerable. Anthropologis...

Research into the subject of why humans cry (and a...  ...volved behavior," said researcher Oren Hasson, an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. "My a...

Psychologists Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thom...  ...son Thompson, Jr. argue that depression may be an evolutionary advantage developed early in human history. What...

Charles Darwin was fascinated with the Venus Flytrap and other carnivorous plants. How did such a thing arise through natural selection? Botanists Don Waller and Thomas Gibson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison beli...

You only have to look at a turtle once to realize how different they are from other vertebrates. Where did that shell come from? The shell itself is made from broadened and flattened ribs, fused to parts of the turtle's...

Forget DNA! Scientists have re-traced our evolutionary tree and confirmed human's relationship to fellow...