Evolution Diary

Chameleons first used colour change to make them more noticeable rather than, as is popularly believed, to blend in, a study suggests. (…)

Australia’s duck-billed platypus has been around much longer than previously thought, according to a new fossil study that found the egg-laying mammal’s origin traces back to the dinosaur days. (…)

Introduction
The growing strength of the movement to discredit evolution and promote the teaching of intelligent design and other non science-based views of biological diversity in public science classrooms is of great concern. (…)

The ancestors of today’s Polynesians and Micronesians were probably East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Near Oceania—what is now Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands—a new genetic study suggests. (…)

The fossil of a dinosaur with a flesh wound has been discovered in northeastern China, offering the most complete view to date of dinosaur skin, a scientist says. (…)