Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study.

Sometimes, one animal ends up in an evolutionary arms race with another for millions of years. Here are four fascinating ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils. This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive as newly evolved ...

We are continually in an evolutionary arms race with bacteria. As we develop new antibiotics, they develop resistance, and so ...

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(via PBS Terra) It’s grudge match time. Except that this one took place over millions of years, between two fierce and formidable enemies. It’s attack vs defence on an epic evolutionary scale.

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution of Palaeontinidae, and supports the hypothesis of an aerial evolutionary ...

Examples of Lapworthella fasciculata shells (under scanning electron microscope) from the Mernmerna Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, showing holes made by a perforating predator. Scale ...