A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML) due to a rare genetic anomaly. In a ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

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For centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration. Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of gliding machines that would mimic birds. Today, the close study of animals and plants is leading to ...

Inversion, a startup backed by Lockheed Martin and Spark Capital, has reaffirmed its plan for a first flight of its Arc space-based, on-demand cargo delivery vehicle next year, as the spacecraft was ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.