A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

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Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

Kakapo are flightless, nocturnal parrots shaped by an island history with few mammalian predators. Males use deep booming ...

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t ...

In my new book, Understanding the Tree of Life, I explore why it is fundamentally misleading to view any current species as primitive, ancient or simple. Why understanding the tree of life matters --- ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...