Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...

An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

I enjoyed Michael Le Page’s article about fast evolution in scarlet monkeyflowers. But I don’t think we should call this evolution. It risks giving people who deny the need to take action against ...