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. (…)

A new study of ancient proteins retrieved from a Tyranosaurus rex fossil confirms the long-hypothesized evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and modern birds, experts say. (…)

The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,000 years, the scientists say. (…)