Some assume that evolution only occurs gradually, over hundreds or thousands of years, but scientists have shown otherwise numerous times and now a new paper in Ecology Letters affirms that…

At some point everyone has heard the question: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg.".  What is surprising about this question is that it can still produce any debate. It is surprisingly…

Male and female blue tits look a lot alike to us but in the UV-range, visible to birds, the male is much more colorful. They see another thing we don't perceive so easily; the monogamous mating…

The term 'living fossil' is a topic for argument among scientists because it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. Like 'missing link' or 'God particle' the concern is the…

In October 1908, after several false starts, one of the world's most effective predators finally found a niche where its population could begin to boom.  A century later, this ruthless hunter…

A team of scientists has uncovered how some sea snakes have developed 'shrunken heads' - literally smaller physical features than their related species. A large head would seem to be a welcome trait…

Who says you can't go home again?  Not evolutionary biology. Well, sort of. There is a supposition with the proper name of "Dollo's law" which states that evolution is unidirectional and…

The  divergent lineage of the oldest known genetic branch of the human Y chromosome, the hereditary factor determining male sex, has been pushed back in time. The new divergent lineage, found in…

A new paper says that flocks of birds, schools of fish, and groups of any other living organisms might have a mathematical function in common - body sizes are distributed according to the same…

Researchers usingt the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia say they have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some…