Evolution Diary

Scientists working in Madagascar have found what may be the largest frog that ever lived. (…)

Two 110-million-year-old fossils of meat-eating dinosaurs that once ruled the southern continents have been found in Africa, scientists announced. (…)

Bat fossil solves evolution poser 
A fossil found in Wyoming has resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food. (…)

A pair of wild western lowland gorillas in Africa have surprised researchers by engaging in face-to-face mating, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today. (…)

The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, claims to have solved this scientific riddle by analysing the genomics of primitive living fishes such as sharks and lampreys and their spineless relatives, such as the sea squirts. (…)