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Evolution

Graphs showing the average age at conception for men versus women over the past 250,000 years. Images courtesy of the Hahn Lab

Fathers consistently older than mothers throughout human history

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences

The figure shows the relationship between movement and regulation of insulin-producing cells in the fruit fly.

Exercise curbs insulin production

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui

Bizarre bird from China shows decoupled skull and body

Categories Life & Non-humans

This graphical abstract depicts the rise of new genes in humans.

Humans continue to evolve with the emergence of new genes

Categories Health

A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings)

Male wasps sting predators with their genitals

Categories Life & Non-humans

Dinosaur face

First dinosaurs ate pretty much everything

Categories Life & Non-humans

Human bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites

Giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

Categories Life & Non-humans

Zuul crurivastator in battle, illustrated by Henry Sharpe. © Henry Sharpe

Ankylosaurs battled each other as much as they fought off T. rex

Categories Life & Non-humans

Fossil – the whole specimen showing the skull (left) and skeleton (base of specimen)

Fossil discovery in storeroom cupboard shifts origin of modern lizard back 35 million years

Categories Life & Non-humans

A Whatcheeria skull in the collections of the Field Museum, with its many sharp teeth visible

Ancient superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth

Categories Life & Non-humans

Octopuses have complex “camera” eyes, as seen here in a juvenile animal

What octopus and human brains have in common

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Artist's impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria.

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

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