evolution

Pterosaurs are among the most recognizable creatures from the dinosaur age, yet scientists know very little about…

Earlier this year, conservationists in South Africa discovered two adult giraffes struck down by lightning,…

A surprising number of hillstream loaches—a family of Asian fish—are capable of walking on land using all four…

Every once in a while, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, in a process…

It’s a bit unorthodox, reaching out to those who spend their lives studying the past and asking them to predict the…

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what…

Update: The authors of this study later retracted it, as newly available research revealed that the creature was…

A plethora of previously unknown bacterial strains related to chlamydia have been found in the unlikeliest of…

A tiny skull mistakenly attributed to an ancient feline has been re-identified as belonging to an ancestor to modern…

The amazing canine nose is more impressive than we thought, demonstrating the ability to detect weak infrared…

Scientists think they’ve helped settle a debate over one of the most endangered (and cutest) animals around: the red…

Scientists in Brazil say they’ve made a mysterious discovery. They claim to have found a virus made of genetic…

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a glacier advanced upon the Pacific Northwest, its ice forming a natural barrier…

Very few land turtles managed to survive the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, but at least one species of…

Sharks typically don’t come to mind when you think about landlocked Kentucky, but as fossil evidence from the…

One of the things that really bugs me about the Jurassic Park movies is the prominent role given to Tyrannosaurus rex…

Sharks have been around for a long time, emerging over 400 million years ago. New research shows that tropical…

A newly described scorpion dating back to the early Silurian period is answering important questions about the first…

One the most intriguing and mysterious creatures on the planet—the giant squid—has finally had its genome fully…

A seemingly spontaneous conga line by a pair of captive chimpanzees might tell us something about how humans first…