Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Picture this: you’re gazing into a vibrant aquarium, entranced by the hypnotic dance of fish. But what if I told you that ...

However, this image oversimplifies the process of evolution. We did not evolve ... find the common ancestor of everything we call a “fish,” that you’d end up including tetrapods like cows and humans! ...

Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Shubin concludes by tracing the evolution of the human brain — from a tiny swelling on the nerve cord of a wormlike creature, to the three-part architecture of a shark's brain and the complex ...

To eat the insects, chimpanzees need to use relatively thin probes to fish the termites out of the ... implications for understanding how humans might have evolved their remarkable tool using ...