Evolution Diary

It’s known as the “mother species” and the “panda under the water.”
Yet the nickname that most aptly describes the Chinese sturgeon, a giant fish that’s been around since the age of the dinosaurs, may be “living fossil.”

Now conservationists are locked in a race against time to save this ancient river titan from extinction. (…)

New Haven, Conn. (…)

You can bet this is one shrew species that hasn’t been tamed. (…)

Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens. (…)

An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers. (…)