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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."