Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...

You’ve seen the memes—“everything will eventually evolve into a crab” or “crab is the ideal form”—while scrolling online. These are parodies of a real scientific concept, carcinization. In biology, ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...

There’s never been a better time to eat. Those of us with the means and a decent grocery can buy fresh fruits and vegetables year-round. Dairy products are pasteurized and no longer teeming with ...

Dinosaurs have thrown into question everything we thought we knew about the evolution of body size. In biology, Bergmann's Rule is a 150-year-old principle that correlates an animal's body size to ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...