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 ...

The surprising evolution of the weirdest animals on Earth, according to a new study Hand et al. via CNN Newsource A cross-section comparison shows (from left) a Kryoryctes (A) By CNN Newsource ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

It seems that evolution blessed it enough in its early form that there was little need to change. That animal isn’t the only one that’s hung onto its physiology for an epic amount of time.

Other animals are much more judicious. Their cultural variation and complexity pertains almost entirely to matters of subsistence and reproduction, such as acquiring food and mating. Humans, on the ...

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