Ever wondered what humans or any life would look like if evolution happened on Jupiter instead of Earth? This gas giant has no solid surface, crushing gravity, insane storms, and toxic atmosphere.

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

Do new traits in evolution happen slowly, or all at once? Two new studies in the journal Science may finally help us solve ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Every year, organizations promote their most talented managers into leadership. Within 18 months, 40% fail or are moved aside ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Some ecologists even refer to our current epoch as the “Pyrocene,” acknowledging how fire has altered the environment. But ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

Humans’ exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...