A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides groundbreaking insights into how animals interact with their environment and each other. These ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...