Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre ...

Evolution is often perceived as an incredibly slow, natural process driven by environmental pressures over millennia. That characterization certainly holds true, but humans have also repeatedly ...

Animal evolution: In the Feb. 23 Section A, ... Among other advantages, larger animals are likely able to move faster as well as hunt for bigger prey. Advertisement.

He proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species -- "the animal connection" -- played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million ...

Animal evolution: Sponges really are oldest animal phylum Date ... However, unraveling the interrelationships between them -- and how they relate to the Bilateria, to which all other animals, ...

All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.This ...

However, unraveling the interrelationships between them - and how they relate to the Bilateria, to which all other animals, including humans, belong - has turned out to be one of the most ...

For all that separates us from gorillas and other great apes, we are family (Image: Bruce Davidson/naturepl.com) We are unlike any other animal, but the differences are surprisingly difficult to ...

Most people on this planet blithely assume, largely without any valid scientific rationale, that humans are special creatures, distinct from other animals. Curiously, the scientists best qualified ...

A new study tracing the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in mammals, using phylogenetic analyses, suggests these behaviors may have evolved in part to strengthen social bonding and ...