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Hormone that tells you when to stop eating has ancient evolutionary roots. Starfish have it too
UK biologists traced the evolution of this neurohormone known as bombesin beyond mammals. Search led them to bombesin-like ...
Radioisotopic ages of newly discovered fossil sites hold clues to evolution of mammals
Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...
Nuit des Musées 2025: an evening at the Natural History Museum's Grande Galerie de l'Evolution
The Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris is taking part in the Nuit des Musées, this Saturday, May 17, 2025. A great ...
15-million-year-old fish fossil found in Australia’s desert offers rare insights
Jochen Brocks, who found the fossil, said, "This little fish is one of the most beautiful fossils I've found at McGraths Flat, and finding the first vertebrate among the abundant plant and insect ...
We probably inherited our joints from… a fish
While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...
From dinosaurs to birds: The origins of feather formation
Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...
The Ultimate Castaways: How Iguanas Survived a 5,000-Mile Ocean Voyage
Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
The Only Living Kangaroo That Doesn't Hop
In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family.