In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Hipster — a word vague enough to be discouraged from use in the New York Times by the paper's standards editor but sufficiently offensive to be insulting when hurled at disheveled, bespectacled ...

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways scuttle offer better chances of survival. Crabs belong to a group of ten-footed ...

If there’s one thing we can all guarantee in life, it’s that nothing ever stays the same. In fact, the foundation of life is evolution–meaning we all grow and change as time goes on. But we can’t ...

The timeline of revolution is almost always twinned: While politicians pursue military strategies to build a new government, the people find their own ways to reshape society. In the spaces left open ...

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Julian Chambliss' employment. Chambliss is an English professor at Michigan State University. Since the creation of the comic "Man of Steel" in the ...