In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their repeated similar evolution makes them interesting to ...

While domestic animals gradually became larger over the last 1,000 years, wild animal body sizes shrank. A new study conducted in Mediterranean France identifies one clear common denominator driving ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

A research team has created artificial animals that over time develop functioning vision from scratch - from simple light sensitivity to the ability ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...