Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

It may seem like a complete contradiction, but evolution can sometimes also mean involution. This is the case for two marine ...

"This is unusual and tells us a lot about how mammals' evolution took place.” Small mammals living today have much shorter lifespans, some surviving for as little as 12 months, and maturing ...

All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that survived. During the next 145 million years of evolution, the dominance of dinosaurs ensured that our distant mammalian ...

The best example we have of evolution at a specific hot spot is ... to be selection against excessive crossing over, why are mammalian species so variable in their numbers of chromosomes and ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...