A tiny marine organism, Solarion arienae, offers a rare window into early eukaryotic evolution, prompting scientists to ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Exploring the scientific and historical perspectives behind this classic question, from evolution to biology, to understand ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Researchers found genetic differences that likely resulted from humans killing aggressive bears, leaving docile individuals ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Our rapidly changing world requires experts trained in global biodiversity and its conservation. The EEOB Option emphasizes organismal diversity, ecology, and evolution in courses with outdoor field ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...