In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

The story of evolution tells us how, starting from simple beginnings, each species was built – when each of the components that make a living creature was added to its blueprint. If we climb the ...

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By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

This was a turning point in mammalian evolution, as most species, which were adapted to arboreal (tree-dwelling) life, began to adapt to terrestrial environments.

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. Cells across the tree of life can swap ...

The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it's in constant flux.