Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution.

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...

In fact, it's happened so often that there's a scientific term for it: carcinization. If you close your eyes and think of a crab, you might picture a round, flat body. Big front claws and multiple ...

A few days before they were to submit a scientific paper together, an evolutionary biologist in Europe received an unexpected request from two co-authors in the United States. After much thought, the ...

In new research, Arizona State University scientists and their colleagues investigated genetic changes occurring in a naturally isolated population of the water flea, Daphnia pulex. This tiny ...

Third grade teacher Tracey Broughton teaches students at Perry Creek Elementary School in Sioux City. Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word “evolution” to ...