When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Echidnas may have evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an unusual evolutionary event, ...

Scientists have watched two lifeforms merge in a once-in-a-lifetime evolutionary event. The event is so rare that scientists say it has only ever happened twice that we know of, and each time led to a ...

"These remarkable evolutionary events were only caught because of the long-term nature of the research programs," Stroud says. "Even if short-term studies captured similar events, their evolutionary ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...