Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre new ...

A curiously phallus-shaped prehistoric worm has provided a 'crucial missing link' to understanding the evolution of certain marine creatures, scientists say. Fossilised remains of the creature dubbed ...

New research has revealed how creatures within the so-called twilight zone of the ocean, extending from 200 to 1,000 metres below the surface, have evolved as a result of climate change. Led by ...

“Evolution is cleverer than you are,” or so states Orgel’s second rule, a rule attributed to the British chemist Leslie Orgel. Now researchers at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, in ...

Australia's scientists have probed some of the deepest cracks in the ocean floor to find the hidden and terrifying life-forms that have unlocked secrets of evolution. Two years ago, teams of ...

An obscure creature called Acanthostega was responsible for a momentous step in the evolution of life on Earth. Essentially a fish, it was nonetheless the first animal to emerge from the water and ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder say they have found three new ancient creatures that once roamed North America 66 million years ago. The creatures discovered are Miniconus Jeannine ...

ANTARCTICA scientists pulled a number of weird and wonderful sea creatures from 4,000 metres below the ice, shining a light on the past and possible future of the ocean. Researchers from Australia ...