Vertebrate Evolution News Today

Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago.

The prehistoric creature belongs to a family of reptiles that includes the largest flying animals that ever lived.

Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology.

Years ago I began to recognize a repeating phenomenon in the rhetoric of evolutionary literature: Scientists, echoed by science journalists, would only admit a problem with their models or a challenge to their ideas once they thought they had...

A cranium hidden at the bottom of a well in northeastern China for more than 80 years may belong to a new species of early human that researchers have called "dragon man."

A cranium hidden at the bottom of a well in northeastern China for more than 80 years may belong to a new species of early human that researchers have call

Sursa foto: Foto Agerpres Researchers Oana Teodora Moldovan and Silviu Constantin from the "Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology of the Romanian Academy recently signed an article in Nature journal, together with an international team of archaeologists and speleologists, that shows that there was a genetic transfer, resulting from the interbreeding between the Neanderthals and the first anatomically modern humans to arrive in Europe, agerpres.ro confirms. Titled "Initial Upper Palaeolithic hu...

Date Time Retroviruses are re-writing koala genome and causing cancer Koalas are facing multiple environmental and health issues which threaten their survival. Along with habitat loss – accelerated by last year’s devastating bush fires – domestic dog attacks and road accidents, they suffer from deadly chlamydial infections and extremely high frequency of cancer. Wild Koala | Photo: A. Gillett An international team of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (L...