Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary paleobiologist Matthew ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...