The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

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

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen—which humans ...

The field of biological research has long relied on conventional model animals to unravel complex biological and ...