Our understanding of evolution can be enriched by adding fossil species to analyses of living animals, as shown by scientists from the University of Bristol. Their paper, published today in ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

Mammals had plenty of space in which to thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution. He ...

New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a ‘stop-start’ pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have changed so little since ...

The human body's size and shape has gone through four main stages of evolution. This is according to a study of fossils found at Sima de los Huesos in Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. Dated to ...