Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Some animals on Earth haven’t changed for millions of years, surviving extinctions, climate shifts, and even asteroid impacts. These evolutionary holdouts, often called “living fossils,” are walking ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

To overcome these challenges, the insects have developed a very peculiar behavior: collective assembly. They use their bodies ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

If you thought dinosaurs were the earliest land-walking, clawed creatures to leave their mark on Earth, we have (somewhat) ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

The last several decades has seen advancements both in the technology used to bring dinosaurs and other extinct animals to ...