Evolution Diary

Neil Shubin and his artist, Kalliopi Monoyios, have made available sets of Powerpoint slides from Your Inner Fish. (…)

A sleek cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in Asia’s Gobi desert. (…)

If dinosaur evolution were an Austin Powers movie, T. rex would be Dr. Evil. And today scientists unveiled Mini-Me. (…)

By literally shining new light on a Chinese pterosaur fossil, researchers have found that the membranes in the creature’s wings contain a complex pattern of fibers not found in any living animal. (…)

 
Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (…)