When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...
A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...
To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...
A new group-evolving agent framework from UC Santa Barbara matches human-engineered AI systems on SWE-bench — and adds zero ...
Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their environments, providing insights into the evolution of the distinct upright postures ...
New research reveals how oxygen-fueled organisms from the deep sea may hold the key to understanding how complex life evolved ...
The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...
Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...
A 307-million-year-old skull from Nova Scotia is overturning a core assumption about when animals first began eating plants.
Kakapo are flightless, nocturnal parrots shaped by an island history with few mammalian predators. Males use deep booming ...
This love of high spaces is part of cats’ natural instincts, according to Stephanie Merlin, a certified feline behaviorist ...