Cats, dogs and farm animals are what come to mind when we think of domesticated animals. For ages, domestication has been ...

A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

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A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

With this breakthrough, humans are tampering with evolution beyond its historical use of artificial selection, or breeding ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...