Conservation scientists are racing against time, as hundreds of animal and plant species edge closer to extinction each year ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Winter vomiting disease is caused by the Norovirus, which is most virulent during the colder half of the year.

In a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis — a species endemic to the Canary Islands — has reduced the size of its ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

The study of Astyanax mexicanus, encompassing both its cave-adapted and surface-dwelling forms, has emerged as a model for understanding evolutionary adaptation to extreme environments. Researchers ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

What appears to be a cozy bedtime for a baby monkey is actually a living experiment in evolutionary biology. The ritualized ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

A new study on canine development found that dogs exposed to adversarial events, including abuse and abandonment, in the ...