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evolution

Life

Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do

Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstruction of a 400-million-year-old plant reveals that its leaves grew much more chaotically

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Life

1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life

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A group of Bonobos

Life

Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

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Life

Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all

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Life

Butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in North America

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Health

Calorie boost may explain why adults evolved ability to digest milk

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The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

Comment

The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

Culture

A black-and-white photo of a man dressed in warm furs crouching down next to Balto, a dog that appears to be a dark-furred husky type dog. Behind them is a brick building.

Life

Balto's genome reveals famed sledge dog was a mutt

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Life

Evolutionary oddball has seven genomes inside a single cell

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Artistic rendering of Morotopithecus

Life

Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors

Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes

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Humans

Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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Comment

Sleeping Beauties review: The strange nature of nature's inventiveness

Culture

Life

Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to genome origami

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Life

Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

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