Where are Leicester City's title-winning history-makers 10 years on?

At 39, Kasper Schmeichel is the oldest of the Leicester City title winning squad still playing, although he may well bring ...

Why Do Humans Have A Tailbone? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why We Never Lost It

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

34-Million-Year-Old Snake Found in Wyoming Rewrites Our Understanding of Evolution

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

How farming changed us: Ancient DNA reveals natural selection sped up in recent human evolution

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Scientists Uncover Hidden Clues to the Origin of the Genetic Code

Clues to the genetic code’s origin may be hidden in tiny protein fragments, revealing a synchronized and highly structured ...
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Finding the 'missing link'

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch Torridon in Scotland, where the microfossil was discovered. Photo: ...