Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way ...

Have you ever found yourself taking a stroll on a not-so-busy beach, watching a bunch of crabs making their way through the ...

There are roughly 7,000 species of true crabs on Earth, and nearly all of them scuttle sideways. That quirky gait is so ...

From the tiniest microbe to towering ferns, evolution is the engine behind life’s incredible diversity. Through genetic drift, natural selection, and gene flow, species adapt, diversify, or disappear.

Crabs’ famous sideways walk may trace back to a single evolutionary moment 200 million years ago. Researchers found that most ...

As you may have heard via a barrage of internet memes, evolution can't get enough of crab-like forms. The body shape of crabs ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

Bicharracosaurus dionidei, a newly discovered long-necked dinosaur species, is reshaping how scientists understand the ...

During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, presents the largest comparative dataset ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny termite with a head resembling that of a sperm whale, forcing a rewriting of its evolutionary tree.