How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species
12 June 2025Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary ‘superchargers’.
Fossil skull sheds new light on transition from water to land
16 March 2015The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists.
New fossil find pinpoints the origin of jaws in vertebrates
11 June 2014A major fossil discovery in Canada sheds new light on the development of the earliest vertebrates, including the origin of jaws, the first time this feature has been seen so early in the fossil record
