The future of artificial intelligence might not be as much a story about engineering as a story about evolution.

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

A new genetic study reveals that Scalesia plants in the Galápagos evolved lobed leaves multiple times through different genes, a striking case of parallel evolution. The findings suggest that isolated ...

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

Scientists have wondered for years why music is present in every culture worldwide, since it does not ensure survival.

A rare Archaeopteryx fossil from Solnhofen, Germany, now at Chicago’s Field Museum, was scanned under ultraviolet light, ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 have demonstrated their ability to understand natural language and generate complex code snippets. This article introduces a novel LLM ...

During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

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