Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

The relationship between predators and prey in the wild is underscored by an evolutionary arms race spanning millions of years, but new research has found modern human activity is reshaping the rules.

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Humans can only see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here’s why evolution may have intentionally hidden ...

When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single ...

In this eye-opening talk, fish paleobiologist Lauren Sallan explains how one of Earth’s most devastating mass extinctions reshaped life on the planet. Around 359 million years ago, nearly 96% of fish ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

The transgender creative discusses his new documentary, Second Nature, which shows how gay penguins and sex-changing fish are ...

Wildlife rescue station staff in the Changbai Mountains release a hand-hatched Chinese merganser by a river. Photo: Courtesy ...

By now BBC Director of Programmes and overseeing both the main channels, David was a particular innovator in the world of comedy. The was best demonstrated by his decision to commission Monty Python's ...

The science of ‘chrononutrition’ suggests that an earlier evening meal could make a significant difference to your long-term ...