New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

What does fame mean today? The hosts of the popular Who? Weekly podcast have written a book that explores the question.

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Emerging research reveals that organisms may never fully catch up to their changing environments, opening new questions about how evolution really unfolds. Credit: Stock New research challenges the ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and proteins change over time. The idea grew from early work in the 1960s, ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...