Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

Prior to 1988, it was the Wave ecotype that lived on the skerry used in the current experiment – a rocky islet that measures ...

A tiny insect that survived the extinction event which killed the dinosaurs throws up questions for evolutionary theory When ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the ...

However, this also begs the question: Which of these evolution cards is the best? The short answer is that it depends on the deck. Looking closely at things, some Evo cards stand out from the pack ...

They evolved over time to develop several species and sub-species here, rather like the famed Darwin finches of the Galapagos Islands which radiated from one original coloniser to a multitude with ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

Across September and October, 2024, Australian Border Force officers in Darwin intercepted two shipments of tobacco just weeks apart, with a combined value of up to $6 million. The X-ray images of ...

Researchers designed a simulation to show when finch species started to diverge.

The beaks of Darwin's medium ground finches can evolve to crush the shells of hard seeds. One definitive way to link ecological changes to evolution would require a time machine. Traveling both ...

Changes in finch beaks, driven by environmental factors, also alter their songs, which affects how the birds recognize their ...