This video explores the Galapagos Islands and their role in shaping our understanding of evolution and natural selection. Formed by volcanic activity in the Pacific Ocean, these islands created ...

This video explores whether Australia should be considered an island or something else entirely through the lens of biogeography. It traces the continent’s isolation after breaking away from other ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A massive fossil discovery in southwest China has ...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with ...

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.

A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full day of teaching, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril turned to a task he found especially rewarding: preparing a ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...