A group of 200 species of closely related bats evolved wildly divergent jaws, a study shows. They don’t know it, but Darwin’s finches changed the world. These closely related species—native to the ...

Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fish fossil, is best known for its anatomy suggesting it may have walked out of the water and is also a very popular meme. Sung to the tune of The Killers’ Mr.

Bat teeth and jaws evolution was influenced by the type of food that was around 25 million years ago. Hulton Archive / Getty Images ...

Most people know wisdom teeth as the unwanted guests of adulthood. They usually arrive late, often bring pain, and in many cases end up being removed. For generations, getting wisdom teeth extracted ...

Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...

A sea lamprey, which has no jaw, has the genetic code to do so, CU researchers find. Photo by Jeff Mitton A half-billion years ago, vertebrates lacked the ability to chew their food. They did not have ...