Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Trait evolution is not predictable ... of such statements include "tetrapods (land vertebrates) evolved from fish" or "humans evolved from monkeys." But, is the goldfish an ancestor of any ...

Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates ...

published July 26 in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. Vertebrates, including humans, trace their lineage back to ...

They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans. The heart belonged to a fish known as the Gogo ...

The discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and how species cooperated and competed with one another, the scientists said. More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

Assumptions that may seem self-evident are not always accurate when it comes to the evolution of vertebrate brains.

What the declining size shows instead is the evolution of pink salmon with slower growth rates, and a smaller size at maturity. Big fish produce ... in order to spawn. Human fishing pressure ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Human hands are capable of performing incredibly complex movements like no other parts of the body. But it's been a long-term mystery of how they evolved into their ...