Evolution

Israeli, Czech scientists recreate COVID-19’s evolutionary journey in a test tube

Scientists and doctors keep closely monitoring viruses that could jump from animals to humans, such as emerging strains of avian flu and bat coronaviruses.

AVIV SHOSHANY (left) and Prof. Gideon Schreiber.
Digital Platform Evolution.

The evolution of digital platforms: From media to online gaming

Mobile Gaming Evolution.

How casino technology mirrors broader trends in mobile entertainment

The face of "Little Foot".

Scientists reconstruct the face of “Little Foot,” a 4-million-year-old human ancestor


160 million years later: This rare fossil is overturning everything we knew about how birds evolved

Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden feather structures that contradict old theories on dinosaur flight. Scientists are now re-evaluating how and when animals first took to the skies.

160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils.

Want a personal trash panda? Raccoons may be evolving for domestication

Beyond evolving features cuter to humans, the mammal has also become less fearful of humans, according to the study.

Raccoon Paul eats at the home of veterinarian Mathilde Laininger in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2022. She cares for four raccoons that can no longer be released into the wild.

Linguistics unlocked: Israeli scientists publish breakthrough research on language development

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem attempted to break the impasse by bringing together findings from linguistics, psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and animal communication.

Nothing Phone 3a Lite

Why this small dinosaur from Mongolia is rewriting the story of dome-headed evolution

Dated to about 108 million years ago, the fossil preserves roughly 90 percent of the skeleton, including the first pachycephalosaur hand and stomach stones.

Artist illustration of Z. rinpoche.

Unveiling the Age of Dinosaur Eggs: A Groundbreaking Study

Chinese researchers directly date dinosaur eggs using new carbonate uranium-lead method

Egg clutch sampled for the study.

This massive bone study reveals the exact moment humans changed animal evolution forever

Illustration: cows grazing.

'Where Did We Come From?': Challenging the classic Darwinian approach - review

'Where Did We Come From? The Origin and Evolution of Life' by Prof. Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg begins with a detailed look at religious narratives of the origin of life.

A STAR resides near the edge of a supernova remnant 15,000 light-years from Earth, that cycles in radio wave intensity every 44 minutes, placing it in the category of celestial objects called long-period radio transients, in this image released May 28.

Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered

Scientists have now identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the human evolutionary lineage that helped facilitate this defining characteristic.

 Illustrative depiction of the Australopithecus Afarensis

Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution

Is this ancient child proof that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed far earlier than we thought?

Prof. Israel Hershkovitz.

The Missing Link? Mysterious Unnamed Human Ancestor Found Near Lucy Site

Researchers recovered 13 teeth, ten attributed to a new unnamed Australopithecus and three to primitive Homo, hinting at co-existence.

The 13 fossil teeth. LD 750 and LD 760 localities represent a newly-discovered species of Australopithecus. LD 302 and AS 100 represent early Homo already known.