The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

Nevertheless he imagined gradation from simple-eyed animals with pigment-coated nerves to ones with eyes of a “high stage of perfection”, such as our own. 11 weirdest, bizarre ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...