You can count on your fingers the number of years it takes for a bird species to visibly evolve, biologists are discovering. Two new studies add to increasing evidence that even large, long-lived ...

This page shows how we've mapped the Big ideas in science: Evolution resources on to topics in the primary science curriculum. Students often initially identify by comparing whole objects and looking ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

At the end of 1924, an anthropologist began chipping away rock around an old primate skull — and rewrote the story of human evolution. The diminutive skull — about the size of a coffee mug — clearly ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

OTTAWA–There never were any vinegar-and-baking-soda volcanoes at science fairs, at least not once you got past the individual schools to the city-wide and regional levels. Those volcanoes were merely ...