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11 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Lizard Named After Obama Died in Dinosaur Apocalypse

by Naomi Lubick

But Obamadon's successors got a postextinction bounce

15 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Rainforest Insects Hear Like Humans

by Emily Underwood

Katydids may listen with their legs, but their ears are almost human

15 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Bdelloids Surviving on Borrowed DNA

by Traci Watson

The secret to the rotifers' success may be their "genetic mosaic"

7 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech

by Traci Watson

Homo sapiens imparted their innovative advances to descendants

7 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Live Chat: Did Cooking Lead to Bigger Brains?

by Ann Gibbons

Chat with experts about how the invention of cooking helped humans expand their minds

31 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A Tree for All Birds

by Elizabeth Pennisi

New tree shows birds diversified many times in many ways

25 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Previously Thought

by Michael Balter

But these wings were probably used for courtship or brooding rather than flight

22 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains

by Ann Gibbons

New study supports idea that cooking helped human ancestors expand their minds

10 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Spider Ancestor Had Big Brain

by Sid Perkins

Creature's nervous system larger than some modern insects, crustaceans

27 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: To Feast on Toxic Plant, Insects Find Common Genetic Ground

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Distantly related species took parallel genetic strategies to survive milkweed

26 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

Mice Save Their Skin by Shedding It

by Elizabeth Pennisi

African rodent jettisons and replaces its hide to escape from predators

17 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

Whodunit? Crows Ask That Question, Too

by Virginia Morell

New Caledonian crows, like humans, can reason about hidden causes

13 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

Generation Gaps Suggest Ancient Human-Ape Split

by Ann Gibbons

The ancestors of today’s humans and chimpanzees may have diverged millions of years earlier than thought

26 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

Genetic Code Tells Hunter-Gatherer Tales

by Elizabeth Norton

In-depth sequencing of three African populations hints at origins of human diversity

17 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Evolution in a Jiffy

by Emily Underwood

Castaway sea stars became hermaphrodites in record time

10 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

Bad News for Big Brains

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Unusual experiment reveals that big brains do indeed make us smarter—but they come with a cost

22 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Inner Ears Reveal Speed of Early Primates

by Elizabeth Preston

Scans of fossils suggest that human ancestors were faster and more agile than previously thought

15 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

You Owe Your Life to Rock

by Sid Perkins

Erosion of metal-rich granite long ago set the stage for multicellular organisms

13 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives

by Ann Gibbons

Genome sequence reveals tantalizing clues to differences in behavior and intelligence between three species

4 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

An Asian Origin for Human Ancestors?

by Ann Gibbons

Myanmar fossil suggests our earliest predecessors may not have come from Africa

8 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Mini Mammoth Is World's Tiniest

by Jane J. Lee

Cretan dwarf stood only 1 meter tall at the shoulder

7 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

Infants' Flexible Heads Stretch Back Millions of Years

by Michael Balter

"Soft skulls" were present in human ancestors

7 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

Whence the Domestic Horse?

by Sarah C. P. Williams

New genetic analysis reveals where horses were first domesticated

3 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

Researchers Reverse Evolution in Water Striders

by Elizabeth Norton

Mutations arm bugs for battle of the sexes

30 April 2012 | ScienceNOW

Natural Selection Is Still With Us

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Church records confirm that 18th and 19th century people still followed Darwin's rules

23 April 2012 | ScienceNOW

Where's the Beef? Early Humans Took It

by Ann Gibbons

Rise of human hunting and scavenging drove large carnivores extinct, new study suggests

10 April 2012 | ScienceNOW

Teamwork Builds Big Brains

by Helen Fields

Evolution simulation suggests we have cooperation to thank for our oversized brains

4 April 2012 | ScienceNOW

How Evolution Copies Itself

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Stickleback fish reveals how the same traits evolve in different species

3 April 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Flashed by a Duck

by Daniel Strain

Unique structures give mallards their wide variety of hues

28 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Primitive Human Ancestor Shared Lucy's World

by Ann Gibbons

Rare ancient foot gives clues to the evolution of upright walking

14 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Dino Deaths Be Damned

by Sid Perkins

Tiny mammals began diversifying long before dinosaurs died out

7 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

A Little Gorilla in Us All

by Elizabeth Pennisi

An ape's genome shows unexpected connections to that of humans and helps reveal our evolutionary history

27 February 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Why the Coyote Got Small

by Sid Perkins

Creatures shrank quickly after the last ice age

23 February 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Honey, I Shrunk the Horse

by Sid Perkins

When the planet heated up, the ancestors of today's horses shrank to the size of housecats

31 January 2012 | ScienceNOW

The Secret of Dino Success

by Brian Switek

Creatures didn't dominate Earth by decimating their competition

22 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

Elephants Have a Sixth 'Toe'

by Elizabeth Pennisi

CT scans help finger a mystery bone in the fat pads of pachyderm feet

12 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

An 'Arms Race' Between Snakes and Humans

by Sarah C. P. Williams

A new analysis suggests the two kinds of animals have played a large role in each other's evolutionary history

12 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

Video: Ancient Fish Takes a Walk

by Traci Watson

African lungfish may provide clues to colonization of land

12 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Standing Tall to Beat the Heat?

by Traci Watson

New study argues that bipedalism did not evolve to help our ancestors cool off

21 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Horse Variety Predates Domestication

by Karl Gruber

More than 70% of today's horse lineages existed before humans started breeding them

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