One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Animals across the natural world rely on a limited number of combat strategies when facing rivals or threats. Researchers ...

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

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Animal stripes and spots might look decorative, but they’re the result of deeply complex biological processes that begin long ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...