It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans. The study, published today (30 March), was led by Dr. Adriana Humanes, ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Scientists warn that assisted evolution may be too slow to save coral reefs as ocean heat waves intensify and climate change ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...