The site of Jehol Biota in China is famous for stunning fossils which preserve soft tissue—skin, organs, feathers, and fur....
Humans are a tropical species. We have lived in warm climates for most of our evolutionary history, which might explain...
While humans have been evolving for millions of years, the past 12,000 years have been among the most dynamic and...
Many important decisions boil down to a choice between the supposed safety of sticking with what we know and the...
Researchers at North Carolina State University found in a recent study that ants did not adjust their behavior in response...
Aggressiveness of pet dogs is influenced by life history and owner’s characteristics, study suggests
Dogs walked every day by their owners are less aggressive. Dogs owned by women bark less at strangers. Heavier dogs...
Venomous snakes cause an estimated 120,000 deaths and 400,000 disabling injuries worldwide each year, with approximately 8,000 snake bite cases...
It seems logical enough that bad weather can sometimes cause birds to become disoriented during their annual fall migrations—causing them...
Recent experiments have shown that the loss of species from a plant community can reduce ecosystem functions and services such...
A new study led by Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has determined that altering a cellular...
A microorganism that helps reduce the release of the greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere has been found to be...
In the 1950s, the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane attributed the maintenance or persistence of the mutation responsible for anomalies in red...
