Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in ...

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary ...

The Noronha skink arrived on the island millions of years ago from Africa, likely on floating masses of vegetation carried by ...

The history of all living things is examined through five key species chosen for the way they move, feed and reproduce and ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...

Ask most people why a chicken exists, and they will describe eggs as something a chicken produces along the way. Richard ...

Grey hair isn't random decline — it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair ...

A 1976 experiment with Trinidadian guppies revealed evolution's rapid pace. When moved from predator-rich streams to calmer ...

Women Live 13% Longer Than Men, and Scientists Just Found Out Why ...