Ohio’s only bee survey will continue after Ohio State received its annual grant funds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has granted $1.3 million to be used to continue research at Ohio State, Mark ...

The Iowa Board of Regents has named Benjamin Houlton as one of the two finalists for Iowa State University’s next president.

Since 1988, twelve identical populations of E. coli have been evolving in the same lab — over 75,000 generations and counting ...

Water anoles are remarkable creatures. Perched along the banks of steep waterfalls in the forests of Panama and Costa Rica, ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Have you ever wondered how some life forms keep going in places so cold we’d call them frozen? Places humans wouldn't dare ...

One of the two finalists to replace Wendy Wintersteen following her retirement as President of Iowa State University has been ...

"Extinction boom" is a term in evolutionary biology describing the paradoxical surge that sometimes occurs just before a species disappears. When a population exhausts its habitat--too many bodies, ...

Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the ...

The Iowa Board of Regents announced Tuesday that Benjamin Houlton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...