Evolutionary Biology

I photograph birds a lot - something that's more possible than it was before due to the fact that I now own a half-decent camera (thank you, parents).

Imagine that you walk into a room, where three people are sitting, facing you. Their faces are oriented towards you, but all three of them have their eyes directed towards the left side of the room.

In many animals, males give females a gift in the hope of getting to mate with her. This might sound overly simplistic, but this really can be how it happens.

A study of colonies of a diving bird on the Spanish coast shows the lingering effect during at least the first 10 years after the 2002 Prestige disaster

This is my second post in a week featuring spiders doing undeniably adorable things - dancing and cartwheels. It's as if spiders know they have a reputation problem and have launched some kind of secret PR campaign to highlight their cuter, less-likely-to-give-you-skin-rot members.

By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs

A long-cherished view of how and why feathers evolved has now been overturned

Paleontologists brave wildfires, parasites and scorching temperatures in search of ancient mammal fossils

Mongolia's Gobi Desert contains one of the richest assemblages of dinosaur remains ever found. Paleontologists are uncovering much of the region's history

The American West once harbored multiple communities of dinosaurs simultaneously—a revelation that has scientists scrambling to understand how the land could have supported so many behemoths

The long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods, once seen as icons of extinction, thrived for millions of years around the world

Bees understand abstract relations despite lacking the brain areas thought necessary