Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Water striders are the only insect that live entirely on the ocean’s surface. By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of named animal species. They’re found all over the world and in all manner ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the ...

In 2026, two tiny marsupials that were long written off as extinct were found alive in one of Earth's most remote and biodiverse regions.

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

Drew Denny's film Second Nature, narrated and executive produced by Elliot Page, reveals a significant gap in what we were taught about animals in high school biology class, and beyond.

Coins have been around since what seems like the dawn of time and human civilization. Of course, numismatists, collectors, and historians know this isn’t quite true. It is generally ...

Paleontologists from the University of Bucharest and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest have discovered a new species of ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...