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 ...
The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...
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 ...
A massive ancient DNA study reveals evolution didn’t stop — it sped up, reshaping human genes in just 10000 years ...