Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

A fast, land-running Triassic croc reveals how convergent evolution shaped predator bodies across time and environments.

Convergent evolution shows how life on Earth often develops similar traits under similar conditions—raising the question of ...

A recent discovery of an ancient cousin of modern day crocodiles known as the "warrior crocodile" in Brazil has reshuffled ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Scientists discovered that sunbirds drink nectar using tongue suction, showing a new feeding method different from hummingbirds.

Dive into the intriguing world of alien evolution! From convergent evolution to the basics of extraterrestrial anatomy, ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who ...

For over seven decades, a single fossil skull sat at the center of one of paleontology's most stubborn classification ...