Evolution and paleontology

• IN BRIEF: Dinosaur graveyard promises clues to extinction

  7 January 2009

• Downturn hits Chicago's natural history museum - Premium content

  Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

  23 December 2008

• 'Proto-spiders' made silk, but not webs - Premium content

  An arachnid with no talent for weaving may have excreted the first known spider silk 386 million years ago.

  23 December 2008

• Volcanoes implicated in death of dinosaurs - Premium content

  Groups argue that an impact wasn't to blame.

  16 December 2008

• Vatican toughens stance on embryo research - Premium content

  Proclamation on biomedical science and reproductive medicine revised.

  12 December 2008

• The genes that drive speciation - Premium content

  Mouse and fruitfly studies provide clues to the origins of species.

  11 December 2008

• Feathers fly over Hawaiian bird - Premium content

  Dispute could stymie efforts to save rare honeycreeper.

  10 December 2008

• Q&A: Moving forward together - Premium content

  Why movement researchers are pushing for a unifying framework.

  1 December 2008

• Terrestrial origin mooted for more microbes - Premium content

  More than two-thirds of bacteria may have descended from a land-dwelling ancestor.

  28 November 2008

• Genetics of cancer relapse revealed - Premium content

  Biologists have tracked the origins and evolution of a type of childhood leukaemia that is deadliest when it recurs.

  27 November 2008