The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you’ll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades, scientists ...

Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

Finding creature comforts in Africa, exploring the Galapagos and travelling to the ends of the earth, Simon Calder shares his ...

The current administration amplifies differences between groups. This approach, which appeals to our evolved psychology, is ...

While toxic to humans, bears naturally seek out the plant for sustenance and for its benefits as a natural laxative.

Various researchers, including the 19th-century evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, have studied the possibility of plants sending signals to each other. Modern studies have proved not only that ...

Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback and Ruuxa the cheetah at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, 2015. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/The New York Times/Headpress ...

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Further up, in the leafy tree canopies, are American green anoles ... we're providing cutting-edge evidence for evolutionary processes that Charles Darwin could only theorize about. These long days of ...