Evolution Diary

Evolution is a beautiful theory. It explains everything from why some birds lose the ability to fly, to the bizarre meandering path of the vagus nerve in our bodies. (…)

Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows. (…)

A spectacularly preserved new Chinese fossil reveals a previously unseen stage in the early evolution of flight. (…)