Why red squirrel moms gamble on the trees

Red squirrels that gamble at the game of reproduction outperform their counterparts, even if it costs them in the short term, research finds.

Jared Wadley-Michigan • futurity
Jan. 20, 2023 ~7 min

Check out flowers up close with these 3D models

Researchers have created detailed, interactive 3D models of flowers to help shed light on their evolution. Take a look for yourself.

McGill University • futurity
Dec. 20, 2022 ~6 min


2 species are the oldest ancestors of living lizards

Two new lizard species fill important gaps in the fossil record and offer tantalizing clues about the complexity of lizard evolution

Jim Shelton-Yale • futurity
Dec. 5, 2022 ~5 min

Ant pupae ‘milk’ keeps entire colony healthy

Ant pupae secrete a never-before observed milk-like fluid that adults and larvae drink to keep the entire colony healthy.

Rockefeller University • futurity
Nov. 30, 2022 ~7 min

525-million-year-old fossil may rewrite history of brain evolution

Fossils of a tiny sea creature solve a century-old debate over brain evolution in arthropods, according to new research.

Daniel Stolte-Arizona • futurity
Nov. 29, 2022 ~8 min

Do treeshrews break the ‘rules’ due to climate?

The Northern treeshrew defies two widely tested ecological "rules" of body size variation within species, according to a new study.

Bess Connolly Martell-Yale • futurity
Nov. 29, 2022 ~7 min

Thigh bone evolution got dinos up on two feet

Researchers have charted the evolution of the leggy alterations that allowed dinosaurs and birds to stand on their own two feet.

Jim Shelton-Yale • futurity
Nov. 23, 2022 ~5 min

Extinct monkey teeth help zero in on age of human fossils

The teeth of a monkey that went extinct about 500,000 years ago is offering clues to the ages of fossils of human ancestors in South Africa.

U. Oregon • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~6 min


Extinct monkey teeth help zero in on age of human fossils

The teeth of a monkey that went extinct about 500,000 years ago is offering clues to the ages of fossils of human ancestors in South Africa.

U. Oregon • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Octopuses have really fantastic vision

The last common ancestor between octopuses and humans was 500 million years ago, but their eyes are still "remarkably similar" to our own.

U. Oregon • futurity
Nov. 16, 2022 ~6 min

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