An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

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

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

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

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.

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

‘Arguing that we are not experiencing a sixth mass extinction, or at least playing it down, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen,’ wrote Cowie in the normally docile pages of ...

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal announced on Saturday a personal investment of $25 million to launch Continue Research, a ...

Transgender identification is a “social contagion,” years of data prove, according to an evolutionary biologist and scholar ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, ...

This important and compelling study establishes a robust computational and experimental framework for the large-scale identification of metallophore biosynthetic clusters. The work advances beyond ...

Dr Maria Santacà describes how not only how fish and birds perceive their worlds, but also how ecological pressures shape the ...