The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the ...

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

Study co-author Mason Dean, a biologist at City University of Hong Kong, first noted a regular tiled pattern in micro ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...

Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of “survival of the fittest” is constantly at play. New DNA mutations arise and ...

Last month, the Bean Life Science Museum opened its new exhibit, the Evolutionary Tree of Life, to the public. “It was a fabulous feeling,” said museum director Michael Whiting. Whiting said the ...