Imagine plunging into the depths of the ocean and coming face to face with a creature that glides through the water with ...

Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet dictates your chances of survival. For the snowshoe hare and the ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

If so, it changes our view of the evolution of tetrapods, whose ancestors were believed to drag themselves by their forefins, only developing useful hind legs once ensconced on land. As for what ...

A novel paper led by Dr. Ulrich Brose of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich ...

More information: James T. Stroud et al, Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08597-9 Journal information: Nature ...

It's sometimes convenient, when trying to make sense of evolution, to think of changes within a species as having a purpose, as though mother nature has some intended goal that she sets out to ...

Their paper, "Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment,"was published in Nature as the journal's cover story in March. "We set out to explore how organisms make the ...