In the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, get to know the many creatures that have roamed the earth throughout history, from ...

Using a revolutionary computer program that gives scientists the opportunity to watch evolution take place before their eyes using "digital organisms," a team of researchers from Michigan State ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as "evo-devo," is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, ...

Evolution is the accepted explanation for life's diversity today, but there are still some holes in the process that we don't understand. To peer back in time at certain key steps, scientists at the ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath and Tim Rock, PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Bath Large species tend to evolve ...

Evolution education in the United States remains controversial and challenging. This is in part due to the difficulty educators face when trying to overcome students’ preexisting beliefs about ...

Students will compare the sequence of amino acids in a gene shared between humans and six other organisms and infer evolutionary relationships among the species. In the NOVA scienceNOW segment Bird ...

A humpback whale is among the largest animals on this planet, now or ever. It is also a gigantic society made of quadrillions of cooperating cells. Different cell types orchestrate eating, breathing, ...