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Variable Environments Can Boost or Block Adaptation, Large-Scale Evolution Study Finds

Researchers tested thousands of generations of digital organisms across 105 shifting settings to reveal context-dependent paths to higher fitness.

First Evidence of Bees Nesting in Fossil Bones Found in Dominican Cave

Ethiopian Fossil Reconstruction Shows Unexpected Mix in Early Homo Erectus

New Study Says 'Little Foot' May Represent an Unknown Australopithecus Species

Mosasaurs Lived in Rivers Near the End of the Cretaceous, Isotope Study Finds

Mosasaur Tooth Shows Bus-Sized Marine Reptiles Hunted in Cretaceous Rivers

Prolonged Drought Tied to ‘Hobbit’ Disappearance on Flores, New Study Finds

Fossil Brain Scans Point to Rapid Origin of Pterosaur Flight

Newly Described Cretaceous Bird Likely Choked on 800 Stones, Study Finds

Hyoid-Bone Study Confirms Nanotyrannus Was Its Own Tyrannosaur Species

Anacondas Have Stayed Giant for 12 Million Years, Fossil Study Finds

Ancient DNA From Southern Africa Reveals Long-Isolated Homo Sapiens Lineage

‘Fire Amoeba’ Sets Eukaryotic Heat Record at 63°C

Nature Study Ties Burtele Foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, Confirms Coexistence With Lucy’s Species

New Ethiopian Fossils Link 3.4-Million-Year-Old ‘Burtele Foot’ to Australopithecus deyiremeda

Fossil Endocasts Show Pterosaurs Evolved Flight-Ready Brains Independently of Birds

Study Traces Primate Kissing to a Common Ape Ancestor 16–21 Million Years Ago

Study Traces Kissing to Ape Ancestors 21 Million Years Ago, With Neanderthals Likely Kissers

Parasitic Ant Queens Trigger Worker Matricide to Seize Colonies, Study Finds

Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced Recovered From 40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth