Evolution

Dating back 67 million years, this representative of the group of modern birds has been dubbed the Wonderchicken (which is not an April Fools’ Day joke).

The bones of humans and their domesticated animals will overwhelm biodiversity in the fossil record 

Our choppers are crowded, crooked and riddled with cavities. It hasn’t always been this way

To make it in urban areas, birds tend to be either large-brained and able to produce few offspring or small-brained and extremely fertile. In natural habitats, most birds brains are of average size.

Some citizen science projects can be done during quarantine

The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.

Is life’s persistence on Earth really the norm?

New research examines how the animals begin close, blood-sharing partnerships

In this 2012 interview, David Quammen talks about his book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which is highly relevant to the emergence of the coronavirus that has changed our lives.

A bird skull from Myanmar hints at a lost world of tiny fossils that are waiting to be unearthed

Overly cautious humans and genetics may contribute to behavior problems in a survey of 13,700 Finnish animals

Archaeologists have dated figurative rock art from Sulawesi to at least 43,900 years ago