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

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

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 ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

They once roamed free - until humans changed the course of evolution forever. This is the story of the moment wild animals became workers, food sources, and ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

F lat-headed cats have been successfully detected and filmed in southern Thailand for the first time in almost 30 years. One ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...