New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in ...

Spanish biologist Ignacio Paulin became fascinated by the behavior of these fish, in a project that could now disappear due ...

In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

He was also a person of exceptional faith, a mystic, a Jesuit priest, and a gifted spiritual writer. At the time he was doing ...