A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

This helps the species to be more successful in its habitat. It’s natural selection at work. In some examples of convergent evolution, species evolve the same solution to a problem but take a ...

While the concept of evolving evolution is still contentious, there are some new examples arising from studies in bacteria.

This is evidence that quite separate, independent episodes of molecular evolution occurred, with the same functional results. This is a dramatic example of convergent evolution, when organisms ...

Yet, there are many examples of macroevolutionary phenomena found in the order Primates, including stasis, adaptive radiations, extinctions of entire lineages, co-evolution, and convergent evolution.

Each species eats a different type of food and has unique characteristics developed through evolution. For example, the cactus finch has a long beak that reaches into blossoms, the ground finch ...

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and 'smushed' faces, so they're more similar to each other than they are to ...

But there are few examples that show evolution from water to land. The transition requires “substantial changes to the musculoskeletal system,” Wilson said, including new positioning of the ...