A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

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 ...

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.