During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

In the ever-evolving landscape of anime, few series capture the imagination quite like The Darwin Incident. This unique narrative not only explores the realms of animal evolution but also delves into ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

Madhav Gadgil's passing is a significant loss for India's ecological movement, mourned by Congress leaders and environmental ...

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

Released by the Royal Mint, the designs from this year's commemorative coin set also honor anniversaries connected to the ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

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

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.