A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

When Ella al-Shamahi went to college, she thought she'd be able to prove Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong. Instead, she was convinced the science was right.

A living fossil fish just proved we've misunderstood a major chapter in the story of evolution. For decades, the coelacanth — an ancient fish species that first appeared 400 million years ago — was ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...