In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Mosasaurs, extinct marine reptiles that dominated Earth’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous period, have fascinated scientists since their discovery in 1766 near Maastricht, Netherlands. These ...

The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, Jupiter, United States ...

School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing 100083, China ...

A long-held theory involving the quickened pace of evolution over short time frames could be explained by an “anomaly” revealed by researchers in a new study. This idea tends to hold that organisms ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that ...

A buddy and I were walking through the Santa Monica Promenade over the weekend after a most horrific dinner at "Bubba Gump's." We were walking past a guy with a slideshow going on and on about "If ...

because students are being told that the theory of evolution is just that: a theory. They’re also miffed because students are being exposed to a competing theory: intelligent design. There are two ...