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Sometimes, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, in a process known as convergent evolution. Here are our favorite examples of evolution making the same creature, ...

As the genomes of more and more species are sequenced, geneticists are piecing together an extraordinarily detailed picture of the molecules that are fundamental to life on Earth. With modern ...

Over hundreds of years, among the dense, sun-dappled rain forests of the American tropics, a family of brilliantly colored butterflies have been evolving at breakneck speeds. Though they come in a ...

Have you ever noticed how blue in nature feels rare and almost magical? You can see the endless sky and deep oceans painted in blue, yet when you look at plants, animals, or rocks, the colour is ...