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Topic: Evolution (page 2)

Three chimpanzees (ROB ELLIOTT/AFP via Getty Images)

Chimps have rudimentary language

Matthew Rozsa
Image of a worm that is genetically engineered so that certain neurons and muscles are fluorescent. (Stacy Levichev)

Worms get munchies from weed, too

Troy Farah
Eyes of an octopus, a goat, a gecko, a goldfish, a jumping spider, a lion, a mantis shrimp, a macaw and a discus fish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mother Nature can't stop evolving eyes

Troy Farah
A Capuchin monkey rests on a tree branch in the Aurora Zoo in Guatemala. (Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The magic tricks for monkeys study

Matthew Rozsa
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Gorteria diffusa, aka the Beetle Daisy or Katoog (Cat Eye) (Dwergenpaartje/Wiki Commons)

Why a daisy evolved to look like a fly

Troy Farah
Chain of amino acid or bio molecules called protein (Getty Images/Christoph Burgstedt)

The alphabet soup of ancient life

Troy Farah
Dog and boy sharing a pretzel (Getty Images/svetikd)

Babies instinctively help dogs: study

Matthew Rozsa
Trimming a bush (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

The scientific mystery of pubic hair

Matthew Rozsa
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Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
Planet earth frozen in a block of ice (Getty Images/Andrew Bret Wallis)

The cynic's guide to evolution

Troy Farah
The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia (Getty/hypergurl)

Five new species of coral discovered

Jeremy Horowitz - The Conversation
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Aidan Burn
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Big waves at the beach (Getty Images/PhotoNostalghia2020)

How did life emerge from nothing?

Troy Farah
Woman sitting on the couch with her dog (Getty Images/Justin Paget)

Yes, dogs can smell your stress

Matthew Rozsa
Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata (FU Boyuan and FU Baozhong)

Fish fossils rewrite the history of life

Troy Farah
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Humans evolved with their microbiomes

Taichi A. Suzuki, Ruth Ley - The Conversation
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Illustration of a tyrannosaurus as an asteroid strikes the Earth. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid had a twin

Matthew Rozsa
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) (Getty Images/ErikKarits)

Mutant roaches go on a sugar diet

Pamela Appea
Sperm (Getty Images/Irina Shatilova)

The sperm evolutionary arms race

Rebecca Coffey
An illustration of the extinct giant ground sloth Megalonyx slowing mmaking his way through an Ice Age Ohio forest. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

Life evolving far faster than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
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Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

Matthew Rozsa
Dingo pups, approximately 3 to 4 months old, play on a fallen tree in the South Blue Mountains World Heritage Area west of Sydney. (Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

The dingo's mysterious genetics

Matthew Rozsa
Easter eggs in the decorative nest (Getty Images/Vikusha)

What makes bird eggs so colorful

Matthew Rozsa
Orangutans (Getty Images/Photo by James Keith)

Orangutans have their own "dialects"

Eric Schank
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