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human evolution

Heart cockle shells

Life

Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables

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Life

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

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Humans

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

Technology

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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Life

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

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Two yellow-bellied marmots on a rock in the Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada

Life

Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Features

A protein from a single-celled organism called Haloferax volcanii

Life

Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

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CEY867 fresh mandarins, oranges

Humans

How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked with our own

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Dodo model on display at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Video

Beth Shapiro: The ancient DNA pioneer’s mission to bring back the dodo

Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro on the hunt for ancient DNA and her groundbreaking de-extinction and environmental mission  

Video

Life

Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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Life

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

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Humans

The fascinating truth about why common sense isn't really that common

Features

Life

The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

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