Latest Evolution Stories
Spider glue might evolve faster than the spiders themselves
The mysterious ‘Tully monster’ didn’t have a spine after all
A plant-based diet full of leaves may have helped apes stand upright
Oldest bat skeleton ever found by paleontologists finally has a name
The alluring tail of the Luna moth is surprisingly useless for finding a mate
Woolly mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia
Why food tastes wildly different to different people
Scientists may have figured out why elephants exhibit complex emotions
Troodons laid eggs in communal nests just like modern ostriches
Scaly lips may have hidden the T-rex’s fearsome teeth
Postmortem poop can teach us a lot about the avian gut microbiome
A 15-million-year-old beaver was just named after an iconic convenience store
Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception
Jackrabbit’s color-changing fur may prepare them for climate change
Why dinosaurs were terrible swimmers
It’s still a mystery how snails ended up scattered around the globe
With bulging eyes and a killer smile, this sabertooth was an absolute nightmare
An extinct 10-foot-long eagle could pick up kangaroos with its terrifying talons
Poisonous animals probably took their sweet time developing unappetizing bright colors
This dinosaur’s record-breaking neck defies the laws of nature
Gorillas like to scramble their brains by spinning around really fast
Flies evolved before dinosaurs—and survived an apocalyptic world after the Permian extinction
Older bees teach younger bees the ‘waggle dance’
This fossilized ‘ancient animal’ might be a bunch of old seaweed
This hybrid hummingbird’s colorful feathers are a genetic puzzle
A gator-faced fish shaped like a torpedo stalked rivers 360 million years ago
Snakes can actually hear really well
What was going on inside of this spinosaur’s brain?
Raising male offspring comes at a high price for orca mothers
Neanderthals caught and cooked crabs 90,000 years ago
Do domesticated dogs howl back at wolves?
Scientists find 319-million-year-old fossilized fish brain
These primate ancestors were totally chill with a colder climate
One wormy Triassic fossil could fill a hole in the evolutionary story of amphibians
Adolescent chimpanzees might be less impulsive than human teens
A virgin birth in Shedd Aquarium’s shark tank is baffling biologists
Trilobites may have jousted with head ‘tridents’ to win mates
When these reptiles became city lizards, it changed their genes
‘Snowball Earth’ was crushing and cold. What animals could survive it?
A primitive part of the zebrafish brain helps them find their way home
Why do humans talk? Tree-dwelling orangutans might hold the answer.
Millions of years ago, marine reptiles may have used Nevada as a birthing ground
Your cat is probably more attached to you than you think
Foraging in trees might have pushed human ancestors to walk on two feet
Giant wombats the size of small cars once roamed Australia
Newly discovered fossils give a whole new meaning to jumbo shrimp
The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard
The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190
This dinosaur dove like a duck
A key to lizard evolution was buried in a museum cupboard for 70 years
The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes
Eyeless army ants chomped their way through Europe millions of years ago
Oldest evidence of digested plants in a roughly 575-million-year-old creature’s gut
These pleasantly plump salamanders dominated the Cretaceous period
Gigantic fossils hint at super-sized 7,000-pound sea turtle
Sex, not violence, could’ve sealed the fate of the Neanderthals
A Scottish fossil is helping scientists fill the gaps in the lizard family tree
Argonaut octopuses are enigmatic—down to their self-made ‘shells’
The rare case of a lioness with a mane
Geologists are searching for when the Earth took its first breath
Our long childhoods could be linked to food-gathering skills
Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes
This pterosaur ancestor was a tiny, flightless dog-like dinosaur
Here’s how life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water