More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

On March 27, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced University of Nevada, Reno professors Steve ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique ...

Haymitch was Katniss' mentor in "The Hunger Games," but "Sunrise on the Reaping" shows them to be more connected than readers thought.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

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Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.

A new study has revealed that the forces creating mountain ranges can also drive species diversity and the evolution of life.

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...