"Extinction boom" is a term in evolutionary biology describing the paradoxical surge that sometimes occurs just before a ...

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

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

The distinctive colored fur of two of Australia's rarest marsupials could be caused by "broken" pigment genes, new research ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

Both faculty members described as collaborators aligned with the academy’s mission to 'regenerate the natural world through ...

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