Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches appear on a growing tree. So, you can read a tree ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos—delicious Latin American ...

But we know for certain that this back-to-the-water evolution did occur ... they may be side branches of the family tree. But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new, whale ...