Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would ...

Some animals aren’t just lucky, they’re biological masterpieces of adaptation. These creatures thrive in extreme conditions ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin changed how people viewed themselves and their place in the universe by setting forth his theory of evolution in his famous work, On the Origin of ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards—never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures.

Jaco Greeff received funding from the National Research Foundation. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and therefore the NRF ...

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Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution.