Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that's the natural result of a green ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

Ancient DNA provides transformative insight into the history of human adaptation via the ability to directly track genetic variant frequency changes across space and time. Analyses of human, archaic ...

Evolution is incredibly diverse, but at the same time super limited. All species must honor basic physics and unassailable biological limits (we’ll never see, for example, an animal with wheels… or at ...

It thus comes as no surprise that the current human-caused climate crisis is reshaping animal physiology. What is climate ...

Drug discovery remains slow, expensive and unreliable, despite many technological advances in recent decades. The journey from a small-molecule screening hit to a candidate drug typically takes 4–5 ...