5 fun facts about evolution. The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago.; There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection ...

You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from microscopic bacteria to the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever ...

First human species: Homo habilis, which lived from about 2.0 to 1.6 million years ago. Number of species on Earth: Around 9 million. You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from ...

Before our involvement, little was known about the normal cardiovascular physiology of great apes. Through collaboration with veterinary practitioners, our research has generated vital data, ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, ... "It's a demonstration of how evolution happens, like, literally in front of our eyes. And we just need to pay attention to it," he says.