In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

Throughout his cinematic appearances, Spider-Man has greatly evolved as a character, with his lore and thematic concerns ...

Cinématographe's 4K debut of the 1988 crime comedy, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine, offers a new opportunity to examine Demme's transitional film between "Something Wild" and "The ...

Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in cities.

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

Evolution’s acquisition of Galaxy Gaming for ~$85M is a small deal with massive strategic implications, securing critical IP for its Live Casino operations. Galaxy’s 131 licenses worldwide (including ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...