Chris Packham uncovers the 4 billion year story behind five iconic animals, revealing how evolution shaped them in the most surprising ways.

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it

To celebrate the 100th birthday of David Attenborough we've found archive pictures of zoology.

Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"

Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 ge...

Four-year collaborative project seeks to understand key process linked to evolution.