Evolution

Some citizen science projects can be done during quarantine

The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.

Is life’s persistence on Earth really the norm?

New research examines how the animals begin close, blood-sharing partnerships

In this 2012 interview, David Quammen talks about his book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which is highly relevant to the emergence of the coronavirus that has changed our lives.

A bird skull from Myanmar hints at a lost world of tiny fossils that are waiting to be unearthed

Overly cautious humans and genetics may contribute to behavior problems in a survey of 13,700 Finnish animals

Archaeologists have dated figurative rock art from Sulawesi to at least 43,900 years ago

At the end of her time at Scientific American, Riley Black reflects on the history of Laelaps

An injury on an ancient bone hints that a saber-toothed carnivore healed fast for its time

Small, feathery dinosaurs jettisoned indigestible food just like some modern birds do

In a vast game of chance and competition, things can get ugly