Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today...
How to tell the different versions of SARS-CoV-2 apart, and how well vaccines protect against them
An amazingly well-preserved fossil suggests the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs also had some type of feather or feather precursor
It’s not just physical combat—animals have a host of strategies for building clout
To survive on nutrient-poor blood, less can sometimes be more
Evolution in cities illuminates long-standing scientific questions and climate change futures
A related lineage’s explosive growth leaves just one descendant today
A well-preserved fossil introduces a new species that lived in what is now California around 42 million years ago
Grandparents are a majority of the pandemic’s death toll
Our much maligned cousins made sophisticated ornaments and probably had language
The sea squirt relative demonstrates that sometimes less is more: losing genes can be adaptive
Yet the unfit creatures survive, challenging our long-held view of evolution
For billions of years Earth was quiet. Then life got loud
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention
The synchronized dance of sulfur mollies is not only mesmerizing to watch but also confusing to predators
A common solution is emerging in two different fields: developmental biology and neuroscience
Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse
The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the conditions of early Earth could be simulated in a glass flask. New research finds the flask itself played an underappreciated, though outsize, role...
Fangs evolved over and over because of this groovy process
It may force energy shifts to repair and maintenance, which could slow aging and make us more available to care for younger generations
