A Neanderthal-derived growth hormone receptor still carried by some people today appears to amplify growth-related signals in cells.

Some cynodonts may have been giving birth to live young much sooner in evolutionary history than previously assumed. A new ...

The microscopic structure of fossilized bones helps solve ‘inscrutable mystery’ about the reproduction of ancestor of true ...

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Cause baby, now Criminal Minds: Evolu tion’s got Bad Blood… Another suspenseful season of the beloved crime drama is in the books, and Season 19’s finale marks the end of ...

The new BBC documentary is so wondrous and awe-inspiring it will make you feel like a child again – and in Chris Packham, it has a presenter for the ages Evolution is a coronation. With this new, five ...

Explore the pivotal evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four ...

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...