A new study in PLOS Biology of 133 species of flies, mosquitoes and their relatives shows that most species fly in ...
Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...
Reconstruction of a Late Triassic landscape (approximately 215 million years ago). A lagerpetid, a close relative of pterosaurs, is perched on a rock, observing pterosaurs flying overhead. Tübingen, ...
Evolution is often imagined as a steady process of gaining new abilities, but in reality it also involves losing traits that are no longer useful. Across the natural world, animals have abandoned ...
"This book was originally published as an issue of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B; Biological sciences (volume 363; number 1496) but has been materially changed and updated"--Title ...
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of the most exciting ...