evolutionary

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Despite its poor condition, the senior geosciences major spent two years carefully reconstructing the fossil and figuring out where it fits in the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

It adds an important piece to the evolutionary history of one of Earth's earliest animals and offers an explanation for why older fossils have been so difficult to find.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million years old, according to an evolutionary biologist.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Scientists also now place the evolutionary split between octopuses and their ten-armed relatives, such as squids, in the Mesozoic era rather than hundreds of millions of years earlier.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari