Some of the most fundamental questions in evolution remain unanswered, such as when and how extremely diverse groups of animals - for example reptiles - first evolved. For 75 years, adaptive ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

This book presents the phenomenon of evolutionary radiation, as seen in the fossil record. The author explores its causes through the analysis of concrete examples using current and past ...

When Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago as a gentleman naturalist, he used the power of observation to develop his theory that species evolve over time. When Charles ...

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events -- and therefore largely unpredictable. But an international ...