Evolution Diary

It’s one of the world’s most elusive animals, but this particular Sumatran rhinoceros is anything but camera shy, judging from its noisy investigation of a video camera trap. (…)

An Amur leopardess has been found dead a mere two days after a new census reported that just 25 to 34 Amur leopards remain alive in the wild—only 7 of them female. (…)

For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. (…)

For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for “life in the universe.”
The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away. (…)

A spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ecology of the Earth’s first rainforests. It is 300 million years old. (…)