This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between hominids and hominins along the way. Kayleigh moves through major splits ...

This overview argues that the story of human evolution is being reshaped by a series of recent discoveries rather than by one single breakthrough alone. It points to finds such as 3.3-million-year-old ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis. University ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

A new study has established the first-ever evolutionary history of all living millipedes, one ...

"I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when ...