The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Even in a world of absolute equals, small strokes of luck can shape survival and evolutionary success in nature.

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable ...

Ancient species may have evolved at a slower pace and endured longer, but evolutionary rates sped up significantly following ...

Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient marine life.

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...

As the world undergoes rapid change due to anthropogenic carbon emissions, scientists will need to know what plants have the ability to adapt and what plants that are too specialized to survive. But ...

One area where this evolution is evident is in the coyotes’ diet. Unlike their rural counterparts who primarily feed on rabbits, mice, and other small mammals, urban coyotes tend to have a higher ...

Scientists reveal that early-life gut microbiome development follows universal patterns, paving the way for new benchmarks in ...

An international team led by Chinese paleontologists has made significant advances in understanding early life evolution by mapping out, for the first time, a high-resolution biodiversity curve ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...