Today, we’re covering convergent evolution, a common term in science fields. While it is a complicated term, it’s relatively easy to understand when you look at some of the more key examples.

Color and iridescence in the animal kingdom. ... that rainbow shimmer coming off of a soap bubble–is an example of structural ... species could be the latest feathery clue to bird evolution.] ...

The fossil skeleton of a newly discovered dinosaur species was found in a pose suggesting it slept like modern birds. This sleeping behavior may have been more common than expected among non-avian ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the diverse ways animals extract oxygen from air, from the highly tuned lungs that enabled ...

Hoarding, in the animal kingdom, is a strategy that has been perfected over millions of years. It is not just a survival ...

Birds in the forest experienced very low ambient light levels at night (an average of 0.00006 lux); birds in Munich were exposed to much brighter nighttime environments (an average of 0.2 lux).

This means that, contrary to birds, bats' forelimbs and hindlimbs did not evolve independently: When the wing shape changes—either increases or shrinks, for example—the leg shape changes in ...

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The fossil of a Jurassic bird unearthed in southeastern China has major implications for the history of avian evolution, researchers say.. The newly discovered Baminornis zhenghensis, a quail ...