Evolution

They beat birds at powered flight. Were they also a step ahead with feathers?

Starting December 16, ocean scientists will live-tweet the BBC documentary series Blue Planet II, available via Netflix.

Enormous genomic analysis yields tantalizing insights into mechanisms behind conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Millions of years from now, the geologic record of the "Anthropocene" will be littered with plastics, yes, but also chicken bones. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Sabercat skulls hint at the different ways these carnivores tackled their prey

Ichthyosaurs had traits in common with turtles and modern marine mammals, like blubber and countershading camouflage. Christopher Intagliata reports.

When trouble lurks, juvenile aphids drop off of the plants they're eating and hitch a ride on bigger aphid escapees.

An estimate of dog intelligence requires looking at non-dogs as well to understand what's special to canines and what is just typical of the taxonomic groups they're in.

The ultimate goal is to inform efforts to conserve or repair heritage sites

A supervolcano may be brewing underneath Chile, with a cold interior that is upending ideas about triggers of huge eruptions

A new technique for identifying tiny fragments of fossilized bone is helping to answer key questions about when, where and how human species interacted with one another

The specimens, which went unstudied for nearly seven decades, show adaptations to high elevation