Long before vertebrates walked on land, millipedes had the place to themselves. Hundreds of millions of years before ...

An international research team has completed the first comprehensive evolutionary history of all living millipede lineages ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The famous analogy goes that if all of Earth's geologic history was compressed into a single calendar year, modern humans wouldn't make an appearance ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis. University ...

Ancient ape skull from Turkey could reshape human evolution timeline ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...